Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miller said the "vast majority" of the final decisions remained "basically the same" as the tentative ones reached under the equal access experiment...
...batsmen, on the other hand, got a good deal of mileage out of their eight hits. The Crimson struck in the middle innings, getting three runs in the third, three in the fourth, one in the fifth, on a booming homer that DH Don Driscoll balsted out into the vast MIT tundra and finally two more in the sixth...
...things Ford asked of Congress are diametrically opposite to what Vietnam needs, and his reasoning directly contradicted the American experience in Southeast Asia. The "vast human tragedy" that he said has "befallen Vietnam" is largely the result of twenty years of American aid that propped up unpopular governments, and of direct military intervention to keep them in power. The "enormous sacrifices" in American "blood, dedication and treasure" he spoke of are insignificant in comparison with the courage and suffering of the Vietnamese people and the National Liberation Front, who have continued to fight against enormous odds since long before...
Large-scale commercial installations are a long way off because they would require vast "farms" of expensive solar collectors. But solar energy, once explored only by smaller companies, now is attracting such big firms as PPG Industries, Lockheed, Westinghouse and Revere Copper & Brass. This week General Electric will show off its solar-heated Valley Forge, Pa., plant to the public; the system uses 5,000 sq. ft. of roof-borne solar collectors and is expected to save 12,000 gal. of fuel oil in an average heating season...
...Britain's best plastic surgeon. What emerges is a face of such beauty that it suggests a saintly soul. Far from it. With beauty comes vindictiveness. Godfrey is bent on revenge for being spurned so long. He becomes a famous preacher who cries out to vast audiences: "Christ died for man to atone for sin. Can we do less for him?" In response, 332 people crucify themselves, and Godfrey himself is brought up short by a novitiate who plays Judith to his Holofernes...