Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast land and island mass of Asia, the newly independent nations have been beset by inefficiency, corruption and tired blood in their leadership. The rise of nationalism and the retreat of colonialism give Communism a great opportunity, which it tirelessly exploits...
...Judge Smith is not always so obstructive, and even his methods pall before those of some previous Rules chairmen, e.g., Illinois' Adolph Sabath, who used to feign fainting fits to get hearings adjourned. On the vast majority of bills Smith works closely with Rayburn or McCormack in speeding the legislative process...
Corruptible Wealth. By this time, Dominique had another devoted admirer, the architect and industrialist Paul Walter, whose revenues from the vast Zellidja lead and zinc mines in Morocco at one time represented 10% of the entire foreign revenue of France. They were married in 1941. A tall, tough, humorous man, Paul Walter had both ideas and imagination. He gave away millions of francs, endowed hospitals from Paris to Istanbul, established the Zellidja Foundation, which offered tiny cash grants to young students on their pledge to travel widely and live by their wits (TIME, Dec. 1). He also had -with apparent...
...miles away in Léopoldville, blacks and whites heard the same words blaring over the loudspeakers of sound trucks. Lean, spectacled King Baudouin had taken it upon himself to explain in person his government's long-awaited program to give independence to the Congo, that vast land 80 times the size of Belgium, that was once his great granduncle's personal fief. Only a week before, nationalists had been demanding independence in the bloodiest riots Léopoldville had ever known...
...life. Seattle-born, Griffith had a boardinghouse boyhood more apt for the pen of Dickens than the brush of Norman Rockwell. Entering the University of Washington in the Depression year of 1932 as a journalism student, he learned, he admits, precious little about journalism or anything else. In such "vast, endearingly inadequate academic ballparks," Griffith argues, "the indulgent curse of mediocrity in American life begins...