Word: brobdingnagians
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...minute. Junior forwards Randy Cross and Sheridan James were deadly marksmen from the outside and kangaroos under the boards. Guard Ken Leary, (5 ft. 7 in.), thought he was Bob Cousy--and could do almost anything with a basketball. Dick Moreshead (6 ft. 9 in.) was graceless--but Brobdingnagian...
...elegant house with a curving staircase and a sleep-in housekeeper, located in that lush preserve of Manhattan suburbia that lies just outside Hollywood. Possibly recalling her hungry working-girl roles of years past, Doris is a pinchpenny; she makes the beds, empties the clothes hampers, and runs off brobdingnagian batches of tomato ketchup in the basement. When she gets an offer to appear on a television commercial praising Happy Soap for $332, Day spends a day before the mirror practicing different ways (surprised, sultry, sincere, brisk, cordial) to say "Hi, there, I'm Beverly Boyer...
...opinion extends to virtually every aspect of the frustrating, wearisome war in South Viet Nam-and reflects its shadowy, hide-and-seek nature. It is a war with no front lines and no decisive battles; a war of containment, not of conquest; a war of Lilliputian pinpricks and Brobdingnagian stakes. It is a day war and a night war, in which the government controls most highways and waterways by daylight (though a U.S. lieutenant and two Vietnamese soldiers were killed in a daylight roadside ambush last week), and the Viet Cong slip in from jungles and swamps to take charge...
...With a Brobdingnagian forward wall that outweighs both the Crimson and Eli varsities and a stellar backfield, featuring the running of fullback Keith Striggow who is averaging six yards per carry, the Elephants rate a solid favorite today...
Unlike Atlas, whose three engines ignite on the ground, Titan is a two-stage missile, resembling a Brobdingnagian rifle cartridge. About 130 seconds up-where Atlas sloughs off its twin booster engines -Titan sheds its first stage, 53 ft. of 10-ft.-thick shell and both booster engines. Thus unburdened, the 37-ft. second stage is expected to reach out beyond 9,500 statute miles-3,000 miles farther than Atlas-to deliver a massive warhead weighing better than three tons...