Word: colossus
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...Just look at him at a summit meeting; he is the colossus...
...capitals of Europe and in Washington as well, that was excellent news. Demonstrations of continuity and stability are particularly welcomed from Germany, the colossus of Western Europe and the world's No. 3 industrial economy. Most of Germany's neighbors were at least a bit apprehensive about how the country would behave after coming triumphantly together five years ago, but Kohl's administration has reassured them. "Germany is not what it was in the past," says a French government official in Paris. German neo- Nazis have committed shocking public atrocities, but they do not presage a national trend toward extremism...
...Dartmouth's academic rating plunges into the teens, Stanford's alumni become increasingly dissatisfied, and the pockets of former Columbia Lions grow shallow, it is comforting to still see John Harvard sitting astride the narrow data like a colossus...
...father as a massive totem against the overheated landscape of Cadaques. This, one realizes, is the first painting by Dali that actually means something, that opens the Pandora's box of obsession of his later, Surrealist work. What it means is parricide. He sees his father as a dark colossus, a parody of the figures of patriarchy that bulked so large in Catalan folklore. Much of his work thereafter would be devoted to dragging the paternal giant from his pedestal...
...bold architects of the $33 billion deal, the largest communications merger in American history, with prospects of creating a corporate colossus extending telephone and cable-television wires into roughly one out of every four American households, simply got cold feet. And it was more than government regulations that pulled them apart. The price of their stocks was plunging, and doubts about the economic wisdom of the merger were on the rise. And the deal may have been too big and too hasty. Wall Street reacted with a 51.78-point drop in the stock market on Thursday...