Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their nationwide speechmaking, all their energy actually was directed toward influencing critical events back in Washington. There, amid the chandeliered splendor of the Senate Caucus Room, an unwieldy 43-member conference committee of Senators and Congressmen met for the first time last week. Their challenge was to reconcile the vast differences between energy legislation passed by the House, which gave Carter almost everything, and by the Senate, which has not yet completed its work but seems bent on giving Carter almost nothing but the back of its hand...
Since the "troubles" first began in Northern Ireland eight years ago, the press has repeatedly reported that the "vast majority" of people there support peace. Yet, a cruel fact in Ulster politics has been that the same "vast majority" has also supported violence, indirectly or directly, unintentionally or intentionally: whether it be the violence of the security forces or the paramilitaries, official or illegal...
Prayer in general is an integral part of the Christian's life and can range from the purely material financial requests to vast cosmic thoughts, or simply to praising and thanking God. Crist says prayer and Bible reading are the highest priorities in his everyday life...
...cropland. The roughly 100 million small farms in the developing world-those less than 5 hectares-are concentrated on only 20% of the cropland. It is little wonder that national economic growth itself has had less than optimum effect on the fertility patterns of the vast mass of the population...
That is pretty much how things go in this vast Genesis of Middle-earth, the Elvish books of Exodus and Kings, the combined Paradise Lost, Prometheus revisited and revised Bulfinch's Mythology that is The Silmarillion. Tolkien brooded over it for a lifetime but never got it published...