Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this vast and varied service-welfare-housekeeping sector that cuts might have been looked for to balance increases in defense spending. In his Oklahoma City speech in mid-November, the President said that "savings of the kind we need can come about only through cutting out or deferring entire categories of activities." That warning drew from Democrat Adlai Stevenson, and the liberal camp, pained protests against dismantling the welfare state. But Ike's 1959 budget should soothe such fears: the welfare state comes through remarkably beefy...
...last, Namias knew. He kept his eyes on the Pacific, and about the end of December he saw what he was looking for: a great wave in the planetary wind. It was moving toward the U.S., and when it arrived it would surely drag down from the north a vast amount of the bitter cold that had been accumulating there. So on Dec. 30 Namias predicted that during January the U.S. east of the Rockies would get extra-cold weather...
...train of Weasels and Sno-Cats (special snow vehicles with spiked tracks), Fuchs had heavy going. The weather was warm for Antarctica, and the snow-bridges over the crevasses were weaker than when he pioneered the route to South Ice. Nine times his vehicles broke through the roofs of vast caves in the ice and had to be hauled out. Once a Sno-Cat was brought to the surface by fixing in the ice beneath it long sections of aluminum bridging to form an incline up which it could be drawn. Other troubles were heavy snowfalls and many "white-outs...
...before Christmas 1863, when Thackeray was only 52, his digestion and what he amiably called his "defective waterworks" broke down for the last time, and with breakdown came a "cerebral effusion." As all London's great hostesses and VIPs were "out of town" for Christmas, it was "a vast assemblage of writers and painters" that escorted the Great Swell to his chosen grave beside his infant daughter. The glowing obituaries ranked him with the literary Olympians, but his friends recalled that he had never cared for that company. "If Goethe is a god," Thackeray once said...
Without Water Wings. Says James ("I got over my inferiority complex") Jones of Some Came Running: "I'm fully satisfied, but I hesitate to call it great, on grounds of immodesty." Actually almost all of it is as silly as its plot. The book is one vast notions counter of half-fashioned ideas on life, love and literature. Its central proposition is the trite one that no one can swim in the sea of life without the water wings of illusion. At its best, Some Came Running does reflect the cultural claustrophobia of small-town life and the personality...