Word: vastness
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Because of the vast Rockefeller holdings in Latin America, Nelson became familiar with the area and sensitive to its needs. When World War II broke out, President Roosevelt put him in charge of a new agency, the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, which countered Nazi pressures and propaganda in the Southern Hemisphere. Appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs in 1944, Rockefeller persuaded the countries of the continent to sign a mutual security treaty. But when Harry Truman succeeded Roosevelt, Rocky's days as an administrator in a Democratic government were over...
Looking at a newspaper's entertainment page these days a reader might think the whole country had gone (POW! WOW! WHIZ!) comic crazy. Annie is S.R.O. on Broadway, Superman is the highest grossing movie, and prime-time TV looks like one vast kiddieland. The Incredible Hulk is breaking up the furniture, Wonder Woman is bouncing over buildings, Captain America is flexing his muscles, and Spider-Man is crawling up the wall...
...eternal. In recent decades, however, the Steady State model of the universe has yielded in the scientific mind to an even more difficult idea, full of cosmic violence. Most astronomers now accept the theory that the universe had an instant of creation, that it came to be in a vast fireball explosion 15 or 20 billion years ago. The shrapnel created by that explosion is still flying outward from the focus of the blast. One of the fragments is the galaxy we call the Milky Way - one of whose hundreds of billions of stars is the earth...
Second, South Africa is significantly different from the other brutally repressive regimes of the world. No other regime has built a system which denies basic political, civil and social rights to the vast majority of its people merely on the basis of skin color. Third, people in the United States have a special obligation to respond to those black leaders in South Africa who have risked jail, torture, or death to speak out against the regime's monstruously irrational and inhumane politics...
...only a limited value--that they can be applied only where there is not a great, compelling moral reason on the other side of the fence. Although I learned to be careful not to apply my own standards to every case--to be tolerant of other views, which the vast majority of the time do not involve great moral principles--I was taught that occasions still arise when it is simply wrong to ignore the basic moral principles. The most basic of these, and the most often flouted, is that the feelings, well-being and lives of other people count...