Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain must remove all 83,000 of its troops from Suez within 20 months. ¶Britain may, for seven years, continue to use the vast storehouses and machine shops to outfit and maintain its Middle East forces. But during this time the Suez base must be staffed not by the military but by civilian technicians, under a private contractor. ¶Britain's troops may return to Suez and reactivate the entire base if any of the eight Arab League states or Turkey is attacked...
...hours later Mendès rode through the heavily guarded streets of Tunis. In the vast crowd under the broiling sun women shouted, "Yo, yo, yo!"-the old Moslem chant of joy. When Mendès stepped down before the palace of the 72-year-old Bey, Sidi Mohammed el Amin, the Bey caused sugared almonds to be cast under the Frenchman's feet. Mendès read out his plan to give Tunisia the internal freedom and autonomy that its nationalists have long and ardently coveted, while safeguarding the rights of the French colons (settlers) and France...
...think here." An ingenious system of black window shades enables him to throw just the light he wants on each portion of his still-life in turn. The still-life actually exists, whole, in his studio. Albright built the moldy brick wall himself, and assembled all the vast assortment junk that makes up the rest of the picture. The major items are on wheels, so that they can be shifted about the studio. But Albright does no more shifting than neccessary; he lets things lie until richly coated with dust. He loves them chiefly for their melancholy aura of vanished...
...level of the ordinary classroom. Last week, as a part of its bicentennial celebration, Columbia University paid tribute to six teachers who were selected for special honor in a nationwide canvass of schools and colleges. In so doing, it also painted a vivid portrait of the vast variety of theory and practice in U.S. education itself. The honored...
Died. William Lewis Moody Jr., 89 (no kin to ex-Senator Moody), reckoned one of the U.S.'s ten richest men (estimated total assets: $400 million) of pneumonia; in Galveston, Texas. Gracious, publicity-shy Financier Moody controlled vast tracts of Texas land (including Galveston Island, which flourished for years as the gambling mecca of the Southwest) and such miscellaneous enterprises as the $364 million American National Insurance Co.,33 hotels and tourist courts, two banks, both Galveston newspapers, eleven ranches...