Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manufacture of handguns would certainly cut down one source of supply, but the production of guns would hardly be eliminated. "It would create rather than solve a problem," says Lieut. James Eisel, an officer in Wayne State University's public safety department. "You would wind up with a vast black market supplied and run by organized crime...
...INFLUENCE OF Wizard on generations of pinball machines to come can only be guessed at; suffice it to say, it will be vast. For now, all one can do is hail, as Samuel Beckett hailed with unfathomed prescience more than twenty-five years ago, the "system, of singular beauty and simplicity, which consists in saying Bally...
...legs were dangling out over left field like the apples of God's eyes. It was one of those clear summer nights with a high sky and incandescent stars, just right for playing out romances and baseball games. The vast field stretched hugely and serenely in its allotted 500-foot arc, far below her gently swaying calves. And the white light from the towering black iron lamps stained everything into perfect hue: the brown and green of calves and grass, and the wine, orange, white of the players' uniforms. The colors collected perfectly into 50 baseball players for the Baltimore...
...which freshmen look forward with much anticipation and excitement. I know that for upperclassmen registration is already something of a nuisance, since it entails filling out countless forms which they have already filled out in previous years. But for freshman going through the line and being wooed by a vast array of political, social, and religious organizations they are encountering for the first time, it is indeed a colorful and exciting occassion. Registering at Holyoke Center at some later time means separation from classmates on this emotion-laden day in their career at Harvard. It is the same as having...
...experiences with the poor are face to face, not some drivel dreamed up by a professor who wouldn't be able to cope for one day with the real thing. I do not believe the solution is spending more money on these vast programs which help only those administering the program...