Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homecomers notwithstanding, the Harvard football team's 13 to 12 victory over Cornell today was neither freak nor undeserved. If the two teams played again tomorrow the margin of victory could only increase, for the added poise and confidence that this stunning victory will give the Crimson, plus the vast superiority of the Harvard line, would enable the visitors to win with considerably less excitement that marked this game...
...strength has grown to: 7,000,000 soldiers, among them nearly five British and better than five U.S. divisions stationed in West Germany; 5,000 tactical aircraft, most of them jets, on 160 airfields; batteries of U.S. atomic cannon and stockpiles of Matador guided missiles; twelve national navies; a vast trelliswork of communications, pipelines, storage dumps, officer-training schools. The immense martial array is controlled by three main international commands: SACLANT (for Atlantic convoy routes), CHANCOM (for the English Channel) and SACEUR (for Europe and the Mediterranean). Behind it lies the long-range strategic air power of the U.S. Strategic...
...frequent condition of his living quarters-in Hollywood a five-room bungalow in Benedict Canyon, in New York City a vast studio in Carnegie Hall-was perhaps best described by a man who came to deliver a vacuum cleaner. "That boy doesn't need a vacuum cleaner," he said. "He needs a plow." The mess was at its worst in the days when Marlon had a pet raccoon, but even before that, it sometimes got pretty bad. Actress Shelley Winters reports that when Marlon and Comic Wally Cox shared a Manhattan apartment, they once undertook to paint the walls...
...powerful House Ways and Means Committee; in Laurel Springs. N.C. A self-made rich man (livestock, banking), shrewd, backwoodsy "Farmer Bob" took over the tax-initiating Ways and Means Committee in 1933, and for two decades (except for the Republican controlled 80th Congress) bossed it through the vast revenue-raising needed for depression and war. Determinedly cracker-barrel (Taxation is a matter of "getting the most feathers with the least squawks from the goose"), Tax-Planner Doughton tried to follow the fiscal center lane, grumbled disapprovingly about "Soak-the-Rich" programs at the same time he was denouncing a proposed...
...year, the bulging U.S. war chest will reach a staggering $5 billion, rivaling the $6.5 billion farm surplus hoard. Since the buying was stepped up after the end of the Korean war, a big question has been raised: Is the strategic stockpile a military program, or is it a vast and expensive price-support program for the U.S. mining industry...