Word: behemoth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medical front, Valpey was happy to report that there were no injuries incurred in practice yesterday. But as for the group already injured, the news was not so good. Captain Howie Houston still has a 50-50 chance to play Saturday, but Chief Bender, behemoth tackle, almost certainly will not participate in the Columbia game. Hal Moffie and Jim Kenary were counted definitely out last Monday...
...Dictator. Supple and spry as it is, G.M. is still too big a behemoth for one man to run. Sloan does not attempt to do it alone. G.M. is run by what is roughly equivalent to an army's general staff. The chief of staff is Mr. Sloan. It is his mind that plans, his hand that guides. The staff is made up of a policy and an administrative committee. These committees create the broad strategy for G.M., and eight smaller committees, made up of G.M.'s officers, board members and division heads, work out the tactics. Within...
Died. Laird Cregar, 28, dulcet-voiced movie behemoth; of a heart attack following an abdominal operation after dieting away 100 lbs.; in Los Angeles. Because of his size (6 ft. 3 in., 300 lbs.), Cregar had a hard time persuading Hollywood producers that he could really act, let his first picture, Hudsons' Bay, in 1940 speak for him, promptly became one of the screen's most popular portrayers of psychopathic, blood-curdling bad-men (Joan of Paris, The Lodger), had just completed, before his death, a new melodrama. Hangover Square...
Before this scrutiny began, the people had known two main and contradictory facts about Harry Truman: 1) that he was once the beholden creature of Kansas City's behemoth boss, Tom Pendergast, as corrupt a machine politician as the U.S. has seen in this century; 2) that Truman has done an excellent job as chairman of the Senate War Investigating Committee...
...another, from France to Shanghai, watched its earnings nose-dive with each new blitz. But last week hawk-nosed, Virgin Island-born I. T. & T. President Sosthenes Behn released an annual report for 1943 which showed that the war is finally working for, instead of against, his globe-girdling behemoth...