Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most stupefying sight in all the restive excitement that grips Algiers is the enthusiasm of the Moslems. They have come out of the fetid alleys of the casbah, descended from the hills, flocked in from the countryside around Algiers. Every evening in the vast parking lot in front of the Government General Building they join hands with Europeans in a "Friendship Chain" and sing the Marseillaise. Terrorized for almost four years by the F.L.N. on one hand and the Europeans on the other, the Moslems of Algeria-particularly in the cities-have greeted the promise of integration with immense relief...
...fascist, De Gaulle is beyond question an authoritarian prepared to demand vast emergency powers as Franklin Roosevelt once did. He has insisted that he would never again accept a ''temporary magistrature." Before he would consent to return to power, the National Assembly would have to agree to send itself on "permanent vacation," give De Gaulle a free hand until a new French constitution could be written. Under the new constitution, as De Gaulle envisages it, France would no longer be ruled by a single house of Parliament. (The French Senate is as meaningless as Britain's House...
...recession-plagued Detroit, fearful of foreign economic competition, Acheson made a to-the-point plea for liberalized foreign trade and for deploying more U.S. funds overseas as an answer to Russia's growing economic challenge. Said Acheson: "Does anybody in this state seriously doubt the vast benefit its citizens have received from the purchase and export by foreign aid programs over nine years of $3.1 billion of motor vehicles, iron and steel items, machinery and chemicals, not to mention $9 billion of other industrial and agricultural items? In 1955, the last year for which we have figures, over...
Rewards. Yet what Dr. Roth's patients usually need most is reassurance about the vast, puzzling range of normal adolescent development. "Anxieties or problems that seem trivial to others," he says, "are very meaningful to teen-agers." The adolescent constantly fears that his or her body is not following the lines of the "ideal" movie star. A girl worries about small breasts; a boy fears that his are overdeveloped. Most frequent complaints: acne, obesity, menstrual "disorders," lack of beard, the skin striations common to fast growth. Not every doctor cares to worry about such normal minutiae. Dr. Roth disagrees...
...raises that would give them $6.40 more. When officials offered only $3.20, they walked out. To tend such urgent cases as childbirth, the strikers left 300 doctors on duty round the clock, promised full care in any emergency. Veterinarians promptly mounted a sympathy strike that left Vienna's vast poodle population unpampered...