Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have left the impression with some that there are only two kinds of Jews; a vast majority of Jews are of a third kind-not Zionists at all, but, on the contrary, patriotic, contented citizens of the countries in which they live, and whose religion is Judaism...
Visible only by its landing lights in New Jersey's night sky, the aircraft whined in a circle above vast McGuire Air Force Base, then touched down and taxied up to a pack of reporters and cameramen on hand to meet the first Russia-to-U.S. civilian flight in 20 years.* There was an intense, high-pitched roar from the twin jets as the sweptwing, silver-and-blue plane rolled to a stop...
...policy. This policy, which Bialer characterizes as "sheer economic adventurism," proclaims the highest priority simultaneously for heavy industry, for consumer goods and for agriculture, and bases its hopes of fulfillment not on basic expansion of plant but on increased efficiency-to be won simply by decentralizing and streamlining the vast Soviet economic bureaucracy. Mikoyan, says Bialer, is too smart an economist and businessman to believe in such fantasies. Shortly before Khrushchev vowed that in five years Russia would be producing more meat, milk, butter than the U.S., Mikoyan was saying privately in Vienna: "I know the living standards of Western...
...Drivers Council, for which he talked contract for over-the-road drivers of twelve states. This kind of power was there for any aggressive man to grab. International President Dan Tobin, growing ineffectual after more than 30 years in office, was little more than a figurehead ruler of a vast, decentralized realm of baronies. In the Far West a redheaded baron named Dave Beck was already capitalizing on organizational weaknesses that fairly cried for a strong hand; stealthily Beck's hand reached out. In the Midwest roughhousing, baby-faced Hoffa was doing the same. He got caught a couple...
With the raising of the new flag in Kuala Lumpur, Britain welcomed the tenth member of a Commonwealth which now includes five nations dominated by people of European stock, four by Asians (Malaya, India, Pakistan, Ceylon) and one by Africans (Ghana). Of all the once vast British possessions east of Suez, only Hong Kong, North Borneo, Aden and a few scattered islands still remain...