Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood stubbornly and firmly on its dignity. But Tom Dewey, who cut his political eyeteeth on just such gang-busting as the Lepke case, seemed to be standing on the firmer legal ground. The next move was up to Washington-and what seemed to be at stake was something bigger than the life or death of murky-skinned, mouse-eyed Murderer Lepke...
...Washington Charlie Wilson was literally surrounded with brainier men, men more cultured or more brilliant in most things than he. And, true, he came late enough to miss a great many of the terrible early defense-days problems that had strained and wrecked many a bigger reputation. Nevertheless, as some gardeners have "green thumbs," he had the know-how, the touch. Things work for him. In Washington, in the very heart of snafu and intrigue, the whole show fell into one long production line, about the time he came, and soon thereafter the production war was substantially won. The battles...
Tons of replacement parts, anti-aircraft ammunition, food and supplies for air and ground crews would be required. By air alone-the only means now available -such a force could be maintained only by prodigious effort and a bigger fleet of transports than China has yet seen. Even if Burma is reopened, the Burma Road's previous top capacity of 15,000 tons a month would hardly wet the bucket. That is why Chennault dreams of a seaport near his operational bases...
...disease's course. First a small, dark raised spot appears on a leg or arm (there may be several of these and they last for months without breaking the skin). Then a cluster of similar spots, which grow larger, form blotches some times as big or bigger than a 50? piece. On white people the blotches are pink, red or brown; on dark-skinned people they are purple, blue or black. Some blotches itch. After a year or more the dark spots begin to lose their color, and the patient's skin becomes a chiaroscuro of bleached blotches...
...Corps now had an air arm bigger than the whole outfit had ever been before. Marine flyers manned land-based fighter stations, flew from carriers, operated their own military airline in the South Pacific. The Corps had full divisions in battle for the first time. It had all brands of field artillery, its own supply service, all the spare parts. It had put women into uniform and turned them into snappy soldiers, had broken the tradition of 167 years and taken Negro recruits. They had been made good Marines. Methodical, determined Tommy Holcomb had seen to that...