Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With New York's vast TV, radio and press forces so close, the massacre was not merely covered-it was smothered. As in the Kiritsis incident a week earlier, such publicity stirred critics...
...size of Maryland. The desert is more hospitable to scorpions and camels than to men. Apart from Bedouins who wander the dunes and camp in the scattered oases, and soldiers who cautiously patrol old battlefields, Sinai's inhabitants hug the coastlines. Yet for all the peninsula's vast emptiness and apparent lack of natural wealth, Israel appears to be determined to hold on to a third of the 24,000-sq.-mi. area, which it captured in 1967. One reason is strategic. Another is economic: there may not be much in the desert in the way of resources...
American Duty. But the vast majority of Americans will clear up their Christmas bills with only minor difficulty and then launch on another round of credit buying-or just never stop. In the modern U.S., the Affluent Society has become the Credit Society, and an insistence on buying only what can be paid for in cash seems as outmoded as a crew cut. Those who cannot get credit are second-class citizens. Those who try to limit their borrowing are sometimes viewed as economic subversives-as TIME'S Johanna McGeary discovered when she confided to a Boston banker that...
Danehy faults Ralph for being "a very difficult man to get along with--he wants everything his own way." He says Ralph originally campaigned for county commissioner as an opponent of county government, but that he "quickly changed his tune" when he began enjoying the vast patronage at his disposal as a commissioner. Ralph reverted to his old stand against the county, Danehy asserts, only after McLaughlin's appointment undermined his position as the "sole say-so" on the board...
...world, and this is one of the things that makes their study so fascinating. The Khoisan and certain neighboring Bantu languages, for instance, are distinguished by being the only languages in the world with a set of clicks in their phonetic repertoire. The Bantu languages all have vast noun classes and though found in some other places in the world (e.g. Fiji), they cannot approach the sheer number of classes that are found in these. Many African languages are believed to have a system of tones, as in Chinese; here the intonation of the voice can be an integral part...