Word: colossi
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...Carrie have a gainful lot because one of them told the beau of the other to seal stingy, but the two circle one on a weeny verse. At the end, all the stories are resolved la hippy, as our four femmes go nab a dingo by drinking tampon colossi...
...something significant is up in Savannah. "I think it will be the No. 2 port in the U.S. within the next decade," says Hamid Moghadam, whose AMB Property owns and operates distribution facilities near ports and airports worldwide. By that, Moghadam means it will continue to trail the twin colossi of L.A. and Long Beach, which he thinks of as one port, but will pass the currently much busier Port of New York/New Jersey...
...with a generation of gifted leaders who had fought with Gandhi against the British, believed in his liberal values, and were determined to keep his nation in one piece. Some of these early leaders, like Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister, became world celebrities, but readers will discover other colossi who made the miracle of Indian democracy possible-men like Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel, who coaxed the rulers of over 500 technically independent Indian kingdoms to give up their crowns and join the new nation, and Jayaprakash Narayan, the socialist who opposed moves to curtail civil liberties...
...like the fact that in our small-bore times, we can look back and see rock-jawed men (rarely women, I fear) like Caesar and Mark Antony, heroes who bestride the narrow world like colossi. There's much to be said for hero worship--a lot more, in any event, than for its opposite, which is the cynical assumption (distressingly common among journalists) that nobody but liars ever entered public life. But we can misuse the past too, especially if we look back to what we think was a time of moral clarity and of actions based upon...
Last Tuesday, I did not want to think about the political aftermath of the World Trade Center bombings. It was too early. That vivid image of those two colossi collapsing into a heap of flames was etched too firmly in my mind. I could not think of anything except the victims who might be underneath the rubble and their families. My girlfriend lives in New York. Many of my friends work in the World Trade Center and lower Manhattan. As I frantically dialed 212 phone numbers, the rest of the world was a distant afterthought...