Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile the grim, grinding battle against the Viet Cong within the borders of South Viet Nam ballooned to bigger-than-life proportions last week-and was as quickly exploded. Over the Communist-dominated district of Ben Cat rendezvoused the largest helicopter armada in the history of warfare-96 choppers carrying rockets, machine guns and 1,000 assault troops. Supported by 4,000 infantrymen, Rangers and counterguerrilla squads, the attack force hoped to encircle an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 Viet Cong "main force" troops who two weeks earlier had mauled four government battalions in a carefully executed ambush...
...enforce Jagan's demands for his union over an older, bigger union, East Indians started harassing nonstriking Negroes in the sugar fields. Before long, any real issue was forgotten in the racial hatred. Houses were bombed, plantations burned, men, women and children on both sides set upon without mercy. A month ago, terrorists planted a time bomb on a river ferry carrying 69 Negroes; at least 40 were killed. Negroes retaliated by blowing up Jagan's party headquarters in Georgetown, killing a Negro worker and narrowly missing the Premier's Chicago-born Communist wife and party secretary...
...MICROJETS. For short range targets not more than 100 yards away, tiny rockets called microjets are now being tried. No bigger than bullets, they are filled with a quick-burning propellant and launched in quick succession from a thin-walled, hand-held tube. Their chief advantages are light weight and silence. They operate not with a bang but a hiss...
...carriages and candelabra are no longer considered arty by the Party. What's more, the show attempts too many things at once and too few of them really fit together. The actors on the screen, for instance, continually steal scenes from the actors on the stage-they are bigger, brighter, louder. As a result, the spectator is continually aware that he is watching a trick, an immensely intricate trick that doesn't quite come off. Even if it did come off, Laterna Magika would still be a trick and not a treat. It is illegitimate theater...
Another rude awakening for transatlantic visitors is America's sheer size. French travel agents have learned to make a point of telling their clients that the U.S. is 171 times bigger than France, but still they are repeatedly disappointed to learn that a morning is not enough to visit the Grand Canyon from Denver or that a horseback ride across Arizona would be no fun at all. The insular English are forever making appointments for lunch in Boston to be followed by dinner in Phoenix and then wondering what all the rush is about...