Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bigger than a pack of cigarettes, the arsonists' bombs are expertly fashioned from a minuscule penlight battery, a wristwatch, a flashlight bulb and incendiary chemicals (potassium chlorate and potassium permanganate) that can be bought at local drug stores. Often tucked under a pile of fabrics in a crowded store, the minibombs are timed to flare after closing hour. In one day, four fires did $810,000 worth of damage to stores owned by U.S. merchants; unexploded devices have been found in the bathroom of a girls' school and, two weeks ago, at a U.S. Selective Service office...
...that is not inspiration enough, girl watchers can contemplate the fact that the beauty pageants are growing bigger, if not better, in more ways than one. Back in 1921, the bust measurement of Margaret Gorman, the first Miss America, was 30 inches. That's one inch less than Twiggy's and 61 less than the current titleholder...
...Fifth Avenue apartment, gave a talk at his daughter Patricia's graduation from Manhattan's Finch College. So certain is he that he has the nomination in hand that he plans virtually to ignore Rockefeller, reasoning that any response would only give the Governor a bigger target. "We've gotten where we are without using the politics of confrontation," said one Nixonite, "and we see no reason to change our plan...
...Hare, the nation's busiest, handled 27 million passengers last year, and has just about reached saturation. A $200 million expansion program is under way to accommodate the 40 million travelers expected by 1975. Washington's National Airport is badly overcrowded, but passengers prefer its convenience to bigger but more distant Dulles or Friendship...
...usual pursuit and chase. What gives the slender story distinction is its unusual style and attitude. It is all rendered from the self-righteously smug "That's the way it was" point of view of the heroine half a century later. Thus the violence is imbued with a bigger-than-camp Bonnie and Clyde quality: the stock two-dimensional figures of the familiar western landscape become disfigured here with a three-dimensional reality as limbs are chopped off and buckshot imbeds itself painfully beneath facial skin...