Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because the Republicans had been waiting so long, the awakening was ruder than it otherwise might have been. The panorama of plenty turned out to be a mirage. Gradually, over the years, the relative scope of political patronage had been dwindling-a vast change in the shape of U.S. politics, which had been obscured during the Roosevelt-Truman period when the expansion of total federal jobs was so great that the patronage seekers were satisfied, even though they got a smaller share of the whole...
...exceedingly narrow margin, Australia's free-enterprising Liberal government hung onto power this week. From the hot white sands of Woomera to the waterfalls of Tasmania, across a vast and booming land almost the size of the U.S., 4,800,000 Aussies cast their (compulsory) ballots and divided them so evenly that Labor, the loser, actually got some 200,000 more votes than the victors. It was only because the electoral gerrymanders favor rural constituencies (where the Liberal coalition is strong) that the government kept control of the House of Representatives by at least seven seats. But the margin...
When Catlin disappeared up the Missouri River, he entered a splendid new world. The natural setting was vast and varied, the Indians rich and strange. The prosperity of the plains tribes had been enormously boosted by the introduction of Spanish horses from New Mexico and California. The Mandan, the Sioux, the Comanche, the Blackfoot, the Crow and a score more nations were at the climax of their glory-which white pressure was to crush in a matter of decades...
...artist. In time he gave in, gained critical success with such pictures, then proceeded to make a popular and financial success with watered-down studio versions of his landscapes. From his late 40s until his death at 78, Corot painted thousands of such cobwebby canvases to fill a vast and continuing demand. Only now and then, as with the Blonde Gasconne, did he rise again to the heights of his intransigent youth...
...have been circulated by people who themselves can never think of a pun until they are driving home after the party. The fact is that punsters have gone underground-at least as far as polite literature is concerned. Among the U.S. writers, there must be a vast reservoir of pent-up puns, just waiting for the signal to burst out into the open. That heady day may be at hand...