Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Teng Hsiao-p'ing [Jan. 1], an inspiring statesman of ability, insight and decisiveness guiding a vast modernization program for one-quarter of the world's humanity, is certainly the right choice as Man of the Year...
...behind the walls of Niavaran Palace, he was striving to cut his losses. The palace announced that the Shah had decided to donate $230 million to the Pahlavi Foundation, but most Iranians were convinced that the grant was a mere token. Besides, cynics argued, the Pahlavi Foundation, with its vast global network of real estate, banks and corporations estimated to be worth around $3 billion is controlled by the Shah...
...past five years the long dormant wood-stove industry has been fanned back to life by the energy crisis, and nowhere is demand stronger than in New England, where good old-fashioned Yankee self-reliance and vast stands of hardwood forests stretching from the Canadian border to the New York City suburbs are combining to help free the region from its 80% dependence on foreign oil. Since 1970, the use of wood for energy in New England has grown sixfold, and in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire a full 18% of all households now rely on the fuel as their...
...California, bringing with it the finest steelhead and salmon fishing in the West. Rugged hills jut up from its banks, shadowed by towering trees. In the valleys beyond lie sparkling blue streams and half a dozen clear lakes. Not a single country house mars the virgin beauty of this vast territory. Yet it is the personal playground of some 2,500 nature lovers...
Lurid or not, the writing is almost always first-rate, an oasis of literacy in the vast wasteland. When Elizabeth wants a motorcar, for example, she tells her husband that it has all of 18 horsepower. "What," he demands, "do you know about horsepower?" "Anyone can understand horsepower," she replies matter-of-factly. "It's a most evocative phrase...