Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hustings popular Candidate Larrazábal was drawing bigger, more enthusiastic crowds than either of his rivals. At a Caracas rally, 100,000 citizens turned out -the most in Venezuelan history. At Los Teques, near the capital, supporters cheered so wildly Larrazábal could not make a scheduled speech...
...morning last week Osage was rocked awake by a blast bigger and closer than the ones that every miner had learned to sleep through. The explosion of almost a full case of dynamite-which any real man in Osage can handle in the dark-gutted the town's biggest building, the 17-room school. Sheriff Charles J. Whiston, 42, quickly reinforced by squads of FBI men, found that the bomb had been set off by mining detonation wire, which would work from the headlamp battery a miner wears on his hip, went to work on such fragmentary other clues...
Selling the World. Booming domestic markets account for some of the expansion, e.g., Volkswagen has an eight-to-ten-months waiting list at home. But the bigger push is for exports, which gobble UP 57% of Volkswagen's production, 75% of Porsche's, 40% of Fiat's, 33% of Renault's output...
...operator merely runs the machine through its work by hand a first time. As he performs the task, the stylus records his most minute steps on tape, which then slavishly repeats the process endlessly with the pulse-servos. Cost of the system, which comes in a cabinet no bigger than a medium-size hi-fi set: from $12,000 to $25.000, plus $500 or so to fit it to whatever machine tool it is to operate...
...modest seven to ten point favorite in today's contest by the "experts" who determine the betting odds. This seems logical enough given the disappointing records this fall of both squads (with Yale's the more disappointing), but there are many Crimson partisans who are hoping for a much bigger margin of victory...