Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stately homes of England, perhaps the stateliest is Chatsworth, a vast Palladian palace set on 50,000 acres of park and woodland, which for generations has been the family seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, whose family name is Cavendish. The first earl, who was one of Henry VIII's bullyboys, began amassing the huge family fortune by taking over some of the prize abbey lands confiscated during Henry's fight with Rome. The Devonshires came to epitomize the British landed aristocracy, and became famous for their arrogant eccentricities...
...ascribes [British] foreign policy to Churchill's senility, Eden's obsessive desire for the prime ministership, and the appeasement elements of the Tory Party. The truth is that British foreign policy is as it is for the same reason American foreign policy was isolationist in 1939: the vast preponderance of the people want it that...
Pretty Much the Same. From all over the world came reports that Rotary was doing things. Often, what it did seemed so puny as to be almost insignificant in the vast sweep of world affairs. It had, for instance, brought 57 young students from 18 nations to study together in Sweden. It organized a blood-bank program in war-torn Korea. It sent a young Pakistani to make friends in Washington's Yakima Valley. It is sponsoring an international network of radio hams. Its magazines had kept Rotarians in Kenya, Viet Nam and Trieste posted on the activities...
Reappraisal. In Charlotte, N.C., after polling only 8,000 votes in a Democratic primary election for the U.S. Senate, Alvin Wingfield Jr. told reporters: "I think it is clear that the vast majority of our people do not agree with my ideas at this time...
...These small-fry complaints (and the big treatment they got) were the visible signs of a great internal problem which was besetting Russia's topmost leaders last week. Russia's vast new emergency farm program was going badly. The outcome may well determine the future of Nikita Khrushchev, the Communist Party secretary who in one year has risen so high that he now stands side by side with Premier Georgy Malenkov in a diumvirate ruling Soviet Russia...