Word: behemothly
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...classic memoir, Shooting an Elephant, Orwell recalls the morning a behemoth ran wild and stomped a coolie. The animal might have been saved, but the psychology of the moment demanded a kill. "Here was I," recalled the ex-official, "the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd-seemingly the leading actor of the piece; but in reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind." After the ritual sacrifice, the writer confesses, "I was very glad that the coolie had been killed...
...work up a dander when the behemoth was sweating himself to death? From there the magic returned, the faith restored, Foreman's end stood at Ali's beck and call. It came quickly, too. In a second or so. Allah's justice is not just and swift retribution. For those in Ali's fold, it took a long time...
What Carnegie did was go electronic. Last week at a gala recital presented by Concert Organist Virgil Fox, the hall showed off its newest feature-a behemoth that can growl, sing, tinkle, purr and blast in a way unmatched by any other organ. A one-of-a-kind creation built by the Rodgers Organ Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., the new instrument is the most up-to-date and expensive electronic organ in the world. Carrying a price tag of $200,000, it took 23 months to design, construct and install. The finished product fairly bulges with audio-oscillators, sine-wave...
...Noble's weekend, it was a savage weekend for Harvard as well. Against the Big Red, captain Tom McKinley received damages totaling six stitches in his mouth and 16 in his knee. Outside wing Charlie Spickert suffered severe tearing of knee ligaments when tackled by a Lion behemoth resembling Lumpy Rutherford...
Compared with a behemoth like Penn's John Engles, a burly 6 ft. 8 in. sophomore, Jenkins seems frail. Yet, he manages to withstand the buffeting, the sharp elbows and frayed tempers which are part of the rebounding chores...