Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year plan that he will submit to NATO's permanent Council next month, Norstad stubbornly reiterated that if it is to be an effective shield against Soviet aggression in Europe NATO must have "about 30 divisions" in the line that runs from the Baltic to the Alps. A vast comedown from the 1952 vision of 97 divisions, Norstad's minimum goal is, even so, out of reach, and threatens to become more so, at a time when most Western nations (including the U.S.) are reducing the number of men under arms. NATO has at its immediate disposal...
...onetime Empress of Iran, was one. Dark-eyed Princess Zehra Hanzade, granddaughter of Turkey's last Sultan and mother of Fazilet, was another. Fazilet's father, Prince Mohammed Ali, is a cousin of Farouk's. He fled Egypt when Farouk did, and got most of his vast wealth out to Europe. At first, Papa was not keen on a royal romance. "I reared my daughter to earn her own living," he was quoted as saying. "A Queen has responsibilities and must give up many of her rights as an individual...
Patient Seeds. Witchweed's way of life is one of the strangest in nature. The plants produce vast numbers of barely visible seeds, sometimes as many as half a million from a single plant. The seeds fall to the ground and mix with the soil, where they can lie for 20 years without losing vitality. A seed does not normally germinate until the rootlet of a suitable plant creeps close to it through the soil. Influenced by a mysterious substance that the root secretes, the seed wakes up. Out of it pokes a root that snakes through the soil...
Public prostitution flourishes more conspicuously in London than it does in any other major capital in the world, providing a sight that U.S. tourists, expecting London to be staid and sedate, stare at in fascinated wonderment. From noon until the small hours of the morning, London's vast troop of trollops are busy as squirrels in the fashionable West End as well as in Limehouse. Many have regular stations. They throng four deep on the sidewalks under the bright lights of Piccadilly Circus, patrol Mayfair, Park Lane and-Bond Street with the lighthearted aplomb of 4-H members...
Father Janssens, whose authority is as nearly absolute as any military commander's, called the Congregation for one major reason: to reorganize the command structure of his vast religious army (50 provinces, 33 vice-provinces, 5,000 communities all over the world), and to delegate part of his own power...