Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lorenz's call to his wife triggered a vast manhunt. Within minutes, police roadblocks sealed off the southwest section of the city, in which Wilmersdorf park is located. Special flying squadrons raided known leftist hangouts-cafés, clubhouses and homes; doors were smashed in, safes and filing cabinets broken open...
Doubtless, the impact of Jewish political activism has been vast. Shortly after the pistol-packing Arafat addressed the U.N., an unusual public letter to President Ford appeared as an advertisement in the Washington Post. The letter urged firm support of Israel and rejection...
...anything be done to stop this vast and insane flow of weapons? Only a few attempts at arms control have succeeded. The Antarctic is a "weapons-free zone," and NATO and Japan for the past quarter-century have voluntarily refrained from exporting strategic goods to Communist-bloc nations. The U.S. imposes elaborate restrictions on the sale of the shoulder-fired Redeye anti aircraft missile because it could be disastrous if the easy-to-use weapon fell into the hands of terrorists, who could then fire it at civilian airliners...
...colleagues and his work confiscated, he cultivated the reputation of being a recluse. Although he then never dreamed that he might be able to publish in the Soviet Union, he was dedicated to recording and preserving for future generations the story of the 66 million victims of the vast "archipelago" of terror instituted by Lenin and Stalin...
BUILDINGS AND HOUSES tend to range low and sparse in Kansas. In town the architecture is nondescript, and the landscape seems pretty stark. But looking up is soothing; the sky looms vast and watery, flowing into the distant horizon on all sides...