Word: colossus
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...heavily dependent on its news service, Chattanooga's Daily Times is nonetheless no poor Confederate-grey copy of its imposing relative. The two stand together on most major issues, e.g., presidential candidates (Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956). But on occasion the Daily Times has tartly differed with the colossus of the North. When Daily Times Washington Correspondent Charles Bartlett, a Pulitzer prizewinner, blasted the Eisenhower Administration for leaking major stories to favored papers, the Times was high on his list...
...real-estate business by the Depression, Maksik borrowed $200, slapped together a wooden frankfurters-and-Coke stand, gradually expanded it into a nightclub by acquiring a jukebox, liquor and cabaret licenses and a dance floor. Two and a half years ago he borrowed $1,000,000, built his present colossus. The logistics of its operation, he soon found, were staggering. The 40-man kitchen staff is geared to turn out 1,700 meals (broiled sirloins, Chinese combination plates) in half an hour. To ferry these around, Maksik employs roughly 100 waiters (in black cutaways and black-and-gold-striped waistcoats...
...eyed buyers, no wasters of emotion, though they loved Dior, rose as one to give Saint-Laurent a standing ovation. "One of the great Dior collections," exulted Bergdorf Goodman's Andrew Goodman. Said astute Marie-Louise Bousquet, Harper's Bazaar's oldest Paris hand: "If the colossus of Dior had crumbled, it would have shaken French fashion to its foundations...
...serene acceptance of humanity's lot coupled with a fierce resolution to better one's own. Out of genuine affection and twenty-twenty vision, Author Lee has fashioned the best of the few U.S. books about Greece, even including Henry Miller's dithyrambic tribute, The Colossus of Maroussi...
...eighth House, until recently but a gleam in the eye of expansion, is fast becoming a tangible if somewhat dubious architectural reality. Judging from recently approved preliminary drawings, Lamont Library and the colossus of Harkness Commons seem to be gaining a spiritual...