Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English, you speak?" "American, I am," said Rademaekers. That brought an Intourist guide who announced in fluent American: "You will be given a bigger room. We thought you were French...
...animated Americanism, the country's unestablished religion. The whole public-school system was aimed at Americanization. Noah Webster's spelling book taught American English to Germans, Poles, Swedes, Italians-and declared that "Europe is grown old in folly, corruption and tyranny." Geography was American, and America was bigger than the universe, the finest, happiest and soon to be the strongest nation on earth. Parson Weems's biography beatified Washington; Fourth of July speeches were gravely heeded. Even arithmetic books instilled patriotism. Symbols burgeoned-Old Glory, the Liberty Bell, the bald eagle, Uncle Sam. Everyone memorized militant songs...
Addressing the Executives Club of Chicago, Nixon drew a bigger crowd than Ronald Reagan, who came into town the same day to talk to the Illinois Chamber of Commerce. Otherwise, Reagan won more than his share of local laurels. Covering five states in three days-his most ambitious foray since taking office-Reagan was at the top of his form despite a bad cold...
Protected by rings of electric wire outside and pistol-packing Marines within, NSA is a cathedral of cryptography-the occult art of secret codes. Bigger even than the Central Intelligence Agency, NSA headquarters houses about 14,000 employees, including some of the best analytic, mathematical and communications brains in the U.S. CIA's well-known headquarters in Langley, Va., has about 10,000 employees. Like CIA, NSA maintains a far-flung network of listening posts abroad, intercepting secret transmissions. At about $1 billion, NSA's annual budget, hidden under special executive funds, is estimated at twice that...
...firm will merge with three other Tyneside firms to form Swan, Hunter & Tyne Shipbuilders and become one of the few British shipbuilders able to handle the mammoth tankers that are becoming a key to the industry's survival. Two Esso tankers, 240,000 tons each, bigger than any ship ever built in Britain, will go up in their yards. Belfast's Harland & Wolff will build two more, at a price of $73 million for the four...