Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some analysts, there was a sense of panic in China's reaction to the dramatic, unprecedented protest demonstration that took place in Peking's vast T'ien An Men Square two weeks ago. In the weeks ahead, these analysts speculate, the Communist Party leadership will make a concerted effort to create a sense of mass enthusiasm and legitimacy for its policies-most notably the abrupt sacking of Chou En-lai's onetime heir apparent Teng Hsiao-p'ing and the elevation of Security Minister Hua Kuo-feng to Premier and First Vice Chairman...
...expensive defeat for the companies, which have sunk $22 million into promoting, researching and engineering the $3.5 billion installation. In the planning stage since 1962, the plant would have exploited the vast deposits of low-sulfur coal in southern Utah and, when fully operational, generated 3 million kilowatts for customers in Arizona and Southern California-enough power to meet the needs of some 3 million people. The project's demise is also a blow to the economy of Utah, which had envisioned the creation near the plant of a town of up to 15,000, additional payrolls...
...even if undomed, the new Yankee Stadium has more character than those sterile, round, modular units that have sprung up across the sports landscape like mushrooms in a glen. It is basically the same looming, irregularly laid-out structure whose vast inner space Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle roamed heroically. Only it is clean, shiny and for the first time comfortable. The "Telescreen" on the scoreboard that was to flash messages like "Charge!" to the crowd was not working, and some box-seat spectators complained that their view of home plate was blocked by the dugout roof...
...previous contract for another year. This has always been construed to mean that the club can keep on renewing indefinitely, a unique condition of servitude that has prevailed largely because of a 1922 Supreme Court decision that baseball is a sport, not a business, and therefore exempt from vast reaches of the law. But now, in the case of Andy Messersmith, the courts have upheld the ruling of a baseball arbitrator that if a player plays out his option-performs for a full season without signing-the contract cannot be extended again by the club. Thereupon the player becomes what...
...Cliffe's third four, composed of freshmen, demonstrated vast improvement in their second race of the season. Last week, the Radcliffe four jockeyed for position with a four from B.U., barely beating the Terriers in the final ten strokes...