Word: brobdingnag
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...smiling Lilliputians of Southeast Asia find the courage and unity to resist the Big-Endian blandishments of their Blefuscudian cousins in Red China and Viet Nam, to say nothing of the far greater danger menacing them from the Muscovite Brobdingnag giant to the north; and may the good Quinbus Flestrin of the West, the democratic big brother Gulliver, realize before it is too late that their small-scale problems are to an alarming degree his problems...
...outraged prim Queen Anne by his vulgarity in "The Tale of a Tub" which cost him preferment. But his "Drapier's Letters" made him beloved of the Irish, which was ample compensation. His "Voyage to Lilliput" laid bare society in all its smallness and pettiness; his "Voyage to Brobdingnag" magnified its faults to gigantic, revealing, revolting stature. He held up an exaggerating mirror to the English public's face and showed them a visage as distorted as a Coney Island reflection. His pen was undoubtedly the most feared of his era, and he wrote publicly and anonymously, over-seriously...
Primo Carnera, Italian brobdingnag, eased his 272-lb. carcass into a ring in Miami and sat down on his stool while various brisk little men fussed around him. One of the men was a doctor, for Carnera was supposed to have cracked one of his lower right ribs in training. The doctor had authority to stop the fight at any time if the patient felt badly. In the opposite corner sat Jim Maloney, hairy, amiable and hog-fat, who lost a ten-round bout with Jack Sharkey five years ago when Maloney was considered a fighter. Last autumn with...
...torso where a clean adhesive bandage marked the cracked rib. "Keep away, Jim," yelled the crowd, and Maloney obeyed, sometimes slapping the plaster, or standing on tiptoes to reach Carnera's face with a roundhouse swing. Although he was eight inches shorter he only fouled the brobdingnag once and then held out his gloves in apology. Carnera danced through eight rounds swinging ponderously, getting in a telling left once in a while but no good rights. The crowd was bored. In the last two rounds Carnera tired and Maloney took courageous chances, dropping his defense and swinging hard...
...crowd that ever watched a sporting event in Spain-a roar went up. Paulino Uzcudun, Basque woodchopper who for several years has been an exacting and dangerous trial horse for U. S. heavyweights, rushed out of his corner in Montjuich Stadium, Barcelona, and tried to hit Primo Camera, Italian Brobdingnag. His swing was short. Camera stretched out a long left hand and set him back on his heels. Squat, hairy-chested, his gold teeth gleaming in his dwarfish face, Paulino in his perpetual crouch, with his elbows swinging, resembled some kind of beetle that Camera, punching almost vertically, was trying...