Word: brobdingnagianized
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Barry Greenfield, 3, climbed onto a huge scale and discovered that he weighs as much as 47 cans of Campbell's chicken-with-rice soup. Yvonne Younis, 7, lay down on a brobdingnagian desk top, twelve times normal size, beside a ruler in the same scale and found that she is 4 in. tall. Mark Stanton, 10, crawled under the flap of an Indian hut, looked around and then popped a bit of pemmican into his mouth...
...gregarious and Brobdingnagian man (6 ft. 4 in., 215 Ibs.), he will talk with almost everyone. During his first year in office, his audiences numbered more than 70,000; he still spends four to five hours a day in some form of community relations, averages at least ,five speeches a week. "I know," he boasts, "every banquet hall in Los Angeles." The L.A.P.D. has not been excluded from Reddin's conviviality. Not only does he talk frequently with all levels, but every two weeks he sends the troops a little newsletter dubbed "The T.R. Times." One of its maxims...
...marches out of the house, and she turns the lock. He puts his brobdingnagian shoulder to the door and opens it by the hinges. "It happens all the time," grins Bobby. Smiles Joanne: "You tell 'em, Star...
Certainly, President Johnson does not want for critics of his war policies. What is all too often lacking, however, is criticism that meets the tests of rationality and responsibility. Galbraith, 59, a Harvard economist whose power of persuasion and talent for popularization are as noteworthy as his Brobdingnagian size (he is 6 ft. 8 in.), offers more convincingly than almost anyone else the respectable alternative that Johnson has repeatedly demanded of his attackers. He is neither a name caller nor a placard carrier. He is no Mary McCarthy, who fatuously insists that it is the intellectual's duty merely...
...Would brobdingnagian be closer to the word for which you are groping...