Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your lead story on North implies that the vast majority of Americans who watched the hearings were hoodwinked by a performance that played on American sensitivities. What I saw and admired was an honest, patriotic, courageous man who answered insinuating and prosecutory questions in an intelligent manner...
Saudi news media portrayed some Iranian pilgrims as terrorists. Iran vowed to overthrow the Saudi ruling family and seize its vast oil wealth...
Tehran radio, monitored in Bahrain, broadcast a threat by Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of Iran's parliament, to "uproot the Saudi rulers" and seize the kingdom's vast oil wealth for Islam...
...leader was not merely a caricaturist's dream. He was an authentic 19th century figure with plans and desires -- not all of them villainous. Bread and Circus imagines Tweed in his salad days, graduating from modest alderman to urban caliph. The campaigner swiftly learns to deny himself nothing, devouring vast meals, acquiring power at the expense of the citizenry, puffing like a beached whale as he sports in the percales with a period piece named Augusta Cordell, estrous wife of a society figure. Renek never whitewashes the Boss, but he adds another dimension to the celebrated Thomas Nast drawings...
...28th month on the job, yet already his name is being used to describe a new era. That may be premature, but it conveys the sense among citizens and observers of the Soviet Union that Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, 56, is more than just the supreme leader of a vast, heavily armed country: he also represents the potential for dramatic change...