Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montesi case would not die, as pretty Wilma Montesi herself had died, obscurely on an Ostia beach 13 miles southwest of Rome (TIME, Feb. 15). At first her death was dismissed as accidental drowning, then came hints of murder. Suddenly sparked by a criminal libel suit, a vast scandal flared up, involving sex, narcotics, and playboys with high connections. The trial produced lurid accounts of the ringleader, one Ugo Montagna, whose claim to be a Sicilian marquis proved to be bogus but whose talent in another direction was undeniable: despite his luxurious way of life, he paid little income...
...because they were themselves enveloped in its murky mists but because a whole governing society regarded itself, and its competence to govern, involved in the revelations of privileges, corruption and injustice. The government dared not abandon investigation of the case, but was unwilling to pursue it, because of the vast aid and comfort it was giving to the Communists...
...beautiful setting provided by history, the rulers of Red China last week played a parody of democracy. The occasion: the First National People's Congress, convened to "ratify" a 106-article constitution for Red China and then "elect" a chairman and vice chairman. From all over vast Communist China's 25 provinces, from far-off Tibet and Inner Mongolia, came 1,141 delegates, striding up steps of gleaming marble, past newly painted red pillars and into Peking's ancient Cherish Benevolence Hall...
...stepfather until she was 16 years old. She ran away and took refuge in the house of a "severe and miserly" uncle, who, says Biographer Magarshack, threatened not only to throw her out of his house but also to disinherit her. But when he died, she inherited his vast estates, married Turgenev's father-and set out to get her own back for the miseries she had suffered...
...University's most esoteric-sounding courses, like Chinese 10, Semitic A, and Slavic 145, just to impress his friends and the people back home. His more realistic brethren usually seek a gut for a fourth course. But to most--those for whom the catalog's offering seems to grow vast as the time remaining in college becomes less and less--the choice of a fourth course is a decision worth a little time and effort...