Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...controlling the whole Government and a potent instrument for manipulating the economy. Lyndon Johnson, who delights in making use of every available lever of power, has used the budget to further his own ends more than any of his predecessors. This-and the fact that the figures are bigger than ever-makes the budget for fiscal 1967 as fascinating as it is formidable...
...Clubroom. Pro Quarterback is the brainchild of Tod Lansing, 52, a retired public relations man who reconstructed it from a game he had worked out on graph paper as a boy. Says Lansing: "Any fan feels that if he were a little bit bigger or a little bit faster or a little bit younger-well, then he'd certainly show everyone a thing or two. This is the guy's chance...
...Harvard hockey team had better come up with a big victory at Dartmouth this morning, and the bigger the better...
...tougher the state, the bigger the lies. New York is the only state with only one ground for divorce: adultery as proved by third-party testimony. As a result, divorces that are contested by one of the parties roil in perjury and mudslinging. In uncontested cases, New Yorkers can get divorced by hiring a professional "other woman," but many childless couples prefer to seek annulments based on phony claims of refusal to bear children; New York has more annulments than any other state. Whatever their other disagreements, affluent couples usually agree to flee to divorce in easier states. A strong...
From all the things sportswriters say about him, Eugenio Monti sounds somewhat bigger than life. He is forever being called "incredible," "dynamite," "the bomb," and "the master." He has "icy blue eyes," "iron hands," and he has survived "countless brushes with death." Actually, in his only major accident so far, in 1958, he got off with a badly broken nose. The real Eugenio Monti is a short, slight, 38-year-old Italian who prefers Coca-Cola to Chianti, goes to bed at 9, earns his living as a ski-lift operator, and hasn't any idea how he happens...