Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many people were murdered there that the vast parade of rocks bear the names of cities rather than individuals. Around the stones are stands of tall trees whose leaves moan endlessly in the wind...
...reminded his countrymen back in 1961, "I stand terror-stricken. Today I am as ancient in years as the Jewish people themselves are ... I myself am like an endless soundless cry, over these thousands and thousands of buried ones." Eighteen years later, Black Activist Bayard Rustin stood before a vast assemblage of commissioners and Soviet sightseers and sang the spiritual that once nurtured Martin Luther King...
...Angeles Times, have changed. The crucial difference is Otis Chandler, 51, who became publisher in 1960. Though his father Norman had made the Times a serious paper, Otis made it one of the nation's best, and turned its parent Times Mirror Co. into a vast communications empire. Times Mirror owns five other newspapers, two television stations, two cable TV companies, five magazines, three book clubs, seven book-publishing companies and extensive paper and forest holdings. Revenues last year topped $1.4 billion, and David Halberstam in his bestselling The Powers That Be calls the newspaper "a comet in constant...
...everybody is aware that high cost and easy comfort are merely two of the effects of the vast cooling of America. In fact, air conditioning has substantially altered the country's character and folkways. With the dog days at hand and the thermostats ostensibly up, it is a good time to begin taking stock of what air conditioning has done besides lower the indoor temperature...
...might be tempting, and even fair, to chastise that vast majority for being spoiled rotten in their cool ascendancy. It would be more just, however, to observe that their great cooling machine carries with it a perpetual price tag that is going to provide continued and increasing chastisement during the energy crisis. Ultimately, the air conditioner, and the hermetic buildings it requires, may turn out to be a more pertinent technical symbol of the American personality than the car. While the car has been a fine sign of the American impulse to dart hither and yon about the world...