Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oppenheimer's and McCarthy's assumption of their above-the-law status furnishes the pivot of rationalized excuse for vast numbers of either tempted or careless or ignorant lesser fry to flout or evade the law, including security regulations, as may seem best to their own individual judgments. This is so elemental that the almost universal failure of our scientists to sense its truths brings the scientific fraternity into question, posing one of the great paradoxes of our time...
John Sherman's father, old John Sherman Cooper, was Pulaski County's first school superintendent, a county judge, the founder of the Farmer's National Bank, and the owner of vast coal and timber land. True to his surname, he was also in the cooperage business, making staves for whisky kegs. Every Sunday he sat alone in his rear pew in the First Baptist Church (Mrs. Cooper always sat across the aisle with the ladies...
Though many small-fry deviationists have crumpled before Mao Tse-tung's firing squads. Red China's masters in 30 years of party organization have yet to undergo a true Russian-style purge. Yet there were mighty stresses and strains in seizing and subduing a vast and unwieldy country of 600 million hungry people. Peking's first solution of the problem was to divide China into six administrative regions, all but one of them in the charge of a first-line army general. The six leaders were, in effect, local warlords bound together by Communist discipline...
...curious: "Entry only for those who have turned to Jesus Christ tonight." Soon after the meeting, Graham doubled up in pain; German physicians diagnosed the trouble as a "blocked kidney." But next day, Graham hopped off to Berlin for another big revival sermon to 70,000 in the vast Olympic Stadium. Then Graham fell ill again, not seriously. But it was enough to delay his next mission-a trip to Paris to treat with the sinners of France...
...inspirations of the great Swede appealed to many an intellectual who did not join the New Church; Emerson saw him as "a colossal soul [who] lies vast abroad on his times, uncomprehended by them, and requires a long focal distance to be seen." Henry James called him "the sanest and most far-reaching intellect." Last week the Church of the New Jerusalem met in Manhattan for its 131st General Convention. On hand were 250 delegates, including the Rev. Yonezo Doi, whose flock in Japan and Korea numbers 3,400 Swedenborgians. Meeting in their trim, light-filled church off Park Avenue...