Word: behemothly
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...high price and, above all, French refinement and good taste. At the same time, Christian Dior has developed into a booming international company with more than 1,000 employees, sales last year of $220 million and handsome (but undisclosed) profits. Yet today an unfortunate link with a troubled textile behemoth makes Dior's future uncertain...
...final match of the day, Craig Beling faced an awesome challenge in the form of Penn's 270-lb. behemoth heavyweight. The bout ended in a 2-2 draw when the Quaker grappler received stalling points in the final minutes...
...beyond its walls. The average Super Bowl patron will, by conservative estimate, spend $100 a day. The dome last year directly generated more than $2 million in tax revenues, plus an estimated $3 million from a 4% city hotel/motel tax that was levied to help pay for the behemoth. Thus while the building ran $5.5 million in the red. it brought in more than lagniappe to the local economy...
...keep I talking about size," Cleveland Browns Running Back Greg Pruitt complains. "Nobody ever asked Columbus how tall he was." Perhaps because, in the words of a contemporary of the Great Discoverer, Columbus was "as regards his exterior person and bodily disposition, more than middling tall." But in the behemoth world of professional football, Pruitt, at 5 ft. 9 in. and 190 Ibs., is more than middling small. From his first day in football as a seventh-grader-when a 4-ft. 4-in. schoolmate looked down at Pruitt (who was an inch shorter) and dubbed him "Shorty"-Pruitt...
When the Eagies came out shooting with a kind of reverse Midas touch in the opening minutes, Fine took charge, worming his way past B.C.'s man-to-man defense and underneath the behemoth Eagle forwards for five quick baskets from inside...