Word: behemothly
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...halt the Baby Tiger's strong running attack. Harvard's defense will have to pierce a Princeton offensive line averaging 219 pounds. Three behemoth tackles. Fulvio Gentili, Bob Panoff, and injury-plagued 6-5, 260 pound Steve Kuziel anchor the Harvard defensive line. The secondary, led by Gatto and quarterbacks Ken O'Connell and Will Stargel, should stymie Princeton's undistinguished passing attack...
...pretty much the way marbles were muscled into place in Michelangelo's day. Grunting workmen wedged the huge metallic shapes onto rollers, eased them down wood beams, hoisted them upright with block and tackle. Meanwhile, the foreman from West Berlin's Hermann Noack foundry, which cast the behemoth bather, scrubbed down her metal flanks with a hand brush to remove the grime of travel...
...obliged with a soaring 191-ft. effort that gave him the lead going into the finals. The blond behemoth bettered that one with a 194-ft., 8 1/2 in. heave, but Cornell's Tom Gage and Northeastern's Bill Corsetti also improved their trial throws and took first and second...
...engine can accelerate the behemoth up to 63 m.p.h. in 9.7 seconds, faster than some sports cars, and the four-wheel disk brakes can stop it on a pfennig. A pneumatic suspension system keeps the car on an even keel through the sharpest curve, invisible wires in the rear window banish ice and frost, and a poke of the finger simultaneously locks all four doors, the trunk and the gas tank...
Though their numbers have gradually declined with the spread of merger-seeking corporations, firms that have stuck to private ownerships have proved that they can compete with and outdo the Goliaths by concentrating on specialty products. San Francisco's family-owned Levi Strauss & Co., the behemoth of blue jeans, has a new wrinkle-or, rather, an unwrinkle. It has just begun worldwide marketing of hot-selling "Sta-Prest" pants, which are treated with resin, then baked in 325° ovens until they have a permanent crease...