Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atomic bomb was not merely a new weapon; it was a new dimension of military and political power. Each in its turn, steel and gunpowder and aircraft had gradually changed war and society. In a single day the atomic bomb made a bigger change than any of them. Its blast hit every war office and chancellery on earth...
...applause lasted longer than the song itself. She followed it with the somewhat bigger Barbara Allen. Then she sang an old Irish song, and a Scotch ballad with a bit of a burr. For her encore she brought out a zither, and broke into the jingling Foggy, Foggy Dew, which another Barney Josephson find, tubby Troubadour Burl Ives, has made...
...become rich and famous on Gone With the Wind was trying to move in on RKO, Hollywood's fifth largest moviemaker.* One day Selznick personnel took over the entire top floor of one RKO building. Forthwith, production was stopped cold on three RKO productions to make way for bigger pictures; many of the company's producers and starlets were paid off like extras...
...game with Rochester, which has never before played Harvard, proved something of a bombshell. The travel situation had been named as the cause for the ban on the Yale game, and it was pointed out by some observers that Rochester was much farther away than Yale and involved a bigger transportation problem...
Deadpan, 38-year-old Major General Curtis E. ("The Cigar") LeMay, responsible for the B-29s' hugely successful low-level fire raids, had to give up his B-29 command for a new - and bigger - job last week. He became chief of staff to General Carl Spaatz, commander of strategic air forces in the Pacific. LeMay's beloved Twentieth Air Force got a new commander. The new man : smooth, handsome Nathan Farragut ("The Champ") Twining, 48, back in the Pacific (where he was once lost at sea for six days) after a distinguished job of long-range bombardment...