Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bringing him to bay came as a vast relief to the embarrassed Dutch government, which had inexplicably fumbled his arrest three weeks before, allowing the alleged war criminal to escape from his palatial Blaricum estate, and causing a national scandal...
...cars: somewhat shapeless heavy wool overcoats, dark gray felt hats and impassive faces that, to the knowing, suggest the KGB officer. Hundreds of them were flown in from Moscow to forgather in East Berlin's grim, hulking Ministry of the Interior, the headquarters of the nation's vast security-police network. Other Russian officers were dispatched to secret-police stations around the country. According to Western intelligence analysts, this activity meant that the Soviets were now directly supervising the campaign of repression that has shaken East Germany for the past two months...
...most interesting cases focus on the vast estate he left behind, estimated as high as $2.3 billion. Hughes left no authenticated will?or at least none so far has been found. Although 30 or so purported wills have surfaced, most have been immediately dismissed as fakes or humorous hoaxes...
...Hughes was hooked on drugs. After he moved into the penthouse atop Las Vegas' Desert Inn in 1966, he was consuming vast amounts of Empirin and later Valium. While beneficial for headaches and nervousness when taken in small amounts, overdosage causes doziness and mental lapses. Later Hughes began openly injecting himself?often in the groin?with hypodermics rilled with a clear fluid. Stewart and Margulis do not know what the syringes contained, but they observed the effects: Hughes would become drowsy and incoherent. His drugs, "my medication," were kept in a metal box that was always taken with him. Whenever...
Sleepy Resignation. Handicapped by frequent foul weather over many of its domestic routes, Aeroflot provides needed transportation in a vast country where 70% of the roads are impassable during the spring thaw. Fares are cheap: only $18.23 to fly the 400 or so miles from Moscow to Leningrad (comparable fare in the U.S.: New York-Cleveland, $56). Travelers, however, are all too familiar with the price for Aeroflot's convenience: overbooking and canceled flights. Airports often resemble dormitories as hundreds of people slump in sleepy resignation, sometimes for days, without adequate dining facilities...