Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hoary belief involves dinosaur stupidity: the hapless creatures died out because their bodies continued to grow bigger while their brains remained small. Indeed, cranium measurements seem to indicate that at least some species were not terribly cerebral: one type of brontosaurus, for example, weighed about 30 tons, and probably had only a half-pound brain. If the dinosaurs did indeed become progressively less intelligent, the theory goes, they would have lost the ability to adapt to changes in the environment...
...Bulldogs, however, came back East and promptly lost to Cornell. The Big Red's one loss was to Princeton. So while the Crimson has a score to settle with Yale, it has something bigger to prove to the unbeaten Tigers...
...Falcons made an even bigger boo-boo in the bottom of the eight, after Harvard had picked up two tallies in the top of the frame...
Probably the thrill would have been bigger if I could actually feel anything except pain. Nonethless, it was good pain...
Paradoxically, though, Johnson might well have been able to win public support for a bigger war than he was willing to fight. As late as February 1968, at the height of the Tet offensive, one poll found 53% favoring stronger U.S. military action, even at the risk of a clash with the Soviet Union or China, vs. only 24% opting to wind down the war. Rusk insists that the Administration was right not to capitalize on this sentiment. Says he: "We made a deliberate decision not to whip up war fever in this country. We did not have parades...