Word: behemoths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What they are seeing is a two-ton, eight-cylinder behemoth built for an age when 50-m.p.h. speed limits, gasless Sundays and talk of rationing would have seemed like blasphemies. The result is that even more motorists are turning to smaller vehicles that can get them through the oil squeeze?at the likely cost of wrenching readjustments in the auto industry, the U.S. economy and the way that citizens move, live and think...
...tank has been refighting the Battle of Crécy." Indeed, for the first time since 1916, when the tank made its combat debut in the Battle of the Somme, a single infantryman armed with an antitank guided weapon was potentially an equal match for the armor-plated behemoth...
...time running out and Rama's intentions unknown, decisions have to be made. The nearest humans to Rama are Commander Bill Norton and his crew aboard the spaceship Endeavour. They undertake a reconnaissance of Rama's innards, crawling about the spotless metal sky like flies on some behemoth's twitching flank...
...state attorney general, sees it differently. To him, Jesse is not only a public nuisance but a threat to the campaign. Jesse's real interest lies in consorting with a group of benign crazies (Peter Boyle, Garry Goodrow and John Savage) in a plot to get a behemoth airship off the ground. Destination: some political Cloud Cuckoo-land where there are no hassles, no jails, no discrimination...
Whipped into a near frenzy at a giant pre-game pep rally, the Notre Dame fans were crying for blood. Instead, the Bruins, nicknamed the "Slaughterhouse Five," cleanly and expertly dissected the unranked Fighting Irish. Led by Center Bill Walton, a 6-ft. 11-in. behemoth under the boards, U.C.L.A. shook off an early case of the jitters and coasted to an 82-63 victory. Afterward, the game ball was carried off for enshrinement in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. The pressure off, Wooden and his charges returned to their quest for an even more remarkable record...