Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joint announcement by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and Britain's Atomic Energy Authority: scientists in both countries have come close to achieving in the laboratory the energy-releasing atomic fusion that produces the radiance of the sun-the same fusion that, man-made but uncontrolled, provides the vast destructive might of H-bombs (see SCIENCE). Wrapped up in the scientific terminology was the prospect that mankind will one day be able to live in a world where power, the basic ingredient of an industrial civilization, will be unlimited...
...private conversation, even the delegates meeting in Ankara this week would probably not argue that the Baghdad Pact has been an unqualified success. It has aroused vast antagonism to the West-and to Turkey-among hysterically "anti-imperialist" Arab nations, and its members' hopes that more Arab states may one day be persuaded to join (Iraq is the only Arab member) still remain just hopes. The U.S.'s refusal so far to become a full member-largely because this would prompt an immediate Israeli demand for a separate mutual-defense treaty with the eyes...
Gervaise. Emile Zola's L'Assommoir, a vast cry at man's fate, diminished by French taste into a touching story of a woman's ruin; with Maria Schell (TIME...
...many a real-estate bargain from cash-short owners in the course of cutting through the Duce's grandiose streets and squares. By 1937 Vaselli was known as the "garbage baron" and "asphalt king." And when typhus broke out again in Rome, Mussolini blamed him. After a vast check, Vaselli took Mussolini early one morning to a Roman creamery. There the Duce saw that the milkmaids, bent on beautifying their skins, were taking baths in the milk before it was bottled. The furious Duce rained blows on the girls' heads, ordered their boss dismissed, and personally overturned every...
...cocky, 24-year-old Szpilki (pronounced "shpeelky") sticks its needles into Communist hides from Moscow to Warsaw. In a cartoon deriding the cultural isolation of Leon Kruczkowski and other hacks on the party's Trybuna Literacka (Literary Tribune), Szpilki this month depicted three self-pitying wallflowers on a vast, empty dance floor. Caption: "The Trybuna Literacka Lonely Hearts Ball...