Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration's balanced budget and "tight money" policy, turned defense expert to proclaim that the balanced budget is "weakening the national defense program." His "program for action to put America back to work": 1) new legislation to "cushion the shock" of unemployment and "safeguard purchasing power," 2) a vast, Government-sponsored building program, 3) "justified wage increases" and a shorter work week "to spread the available supply of jobs...
...furious Red Chinese boasted that they had put down the three-day revolt in Lhasa that had served to cover the God-King's escape. Point-blank artillery fire drove diehard lamas from the Norbulingka, summer palace on the city's outskirts. Red infantrymen surged into the vast warrens of the Potala winter palace, rounded up defiant monks in narrow passages and dark rooms where flickering butter lamps made Tibet's grotesque gods and demons seem to caper on the walls. The corpses of hundreds of slain Lhasans lay in the streets and parks of the city...
...marry, was gradually overborne by the celibate Yellow Hat sect. This was made official in 1557 when a Mongol khan gave the seal of rulership to the leading Yellow Hat monk and named him Dalai (Ocean of Wisdom) Lama. The fifth Dalai Lama is famous for building the vast Potala. He also felt the need to honor his favorite teacher by naming him the Panchen (Teacher) Lama, and put in his keeping Tibet's second largest city, Shigatse. He thus created a rivalry that has plagued Tibet ever since. Generally, the Dalai Lama has had the support of whatever...
...British colonial army in Africa in World War II, seems to know about administrative misfits and the cheap little ploys of petty, ambitious men in seats of power. Most of all, he can catch the hatred of mistreated natives in a brief scene, show on a single page the vast gulf of misunderstanding that separates insensitive whites and long-suffering blacks. His desert comes powerfully alive in brief, sharp descriptions, and without leaving his brutal, well-plotted story for a moment he makes his grim but debatable point with clarity: if Africa is lost to the West, it is because...
...this sports program, vast as it may be, includes no more than half the students in regular activity. For many undergraduates, athletic participation consists of watching a few football and baseball games, playing squash once or twice, and glancing over House Manager's notices. By not joining activities, this group of students helps to subsidize, in effect, a large share of the athletic program...