Word: behemothly
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...abolished the beat, and shunted him off to the hinterlands of the suburban Westchester edition. Disillusioned, White quit to become a free-lance writer. In True Bearing, 24-year-old Henry Williams is the last of a long breed of waterfront reporters of a great New York newspaper ("a behemoth, a giant rising twenty-two stories over Sixth Avenue") who, after falling in love, of course, quits to become a free-lance writer when his beat vanishes and he is faced with the impending transfer to the "Verve" section...
...truth, UMass was not very impressive. Rushing for just 79 yards on 49 carries (Harvard was 45-127), the Minutemen had to live with almost no ground game. The Harvard defense proved that its performance against Columbia was no fluke as it closed the holes opened by the behemoth UMass lineman...
...pray for your sense of the outrageous when Divine eats turd, when the houseboy violates the pregnant hostage being held in the family cellar, when you get a load of how Divine keeps her behemoth of a mother in a baby's crib. You might just find youself in unrepressed stitches. If not, look at it this way--you can finally do something you always wanted to do but were too cheap to carry out: walk out in the middle...
Ford last month jacked up prices on all its big cars, including its fast-selling Thunderbirds (by $128) and behemoth Lincolns (by $267). To encourage small-car sales, Ford left intact the prices on its fuel-efficient but slow-selling Pintos and Bobcats...
...stayed in New York only long enough to gather supplies and buy a bus ticket, and then I was on the rolling behemoth that would not stop until it crossed the continent, even if Greyhound did change drivers every five hours...