Word: colossus
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...fascist movement in the Argentine which has tentacles elsewhere. At the present time, in my opinion, there is ... a working alliance between the fascist and .the Communist elements to agree on at least one proposition. That is hatred of the Yankee-to destroy the influence of the so-called Colossus of the North in Central and South America...
There were thrilling sights: the grey files of West Point cadets and the brave flutter of massed colors. There were grim moments too. When a regiment of marines, dressed in combat fatigues, passed in review, the crowds cheered, and when that ominous-looking colossus, the atomic cannon, rolled past, all voices were hushed. And there were old inaugural standbys: the brother rats from V.M.I., the plumed Richmond Blues, the paunchy Governor's Foot Guards of Connecticut in scarlet coats and shakos...
...crossroads of slavery and freedom . . . A vote of 'no' on these treaties means 'yes' to Stalin . . . Germany's position is more exposed than ever before in her history. Germany is divided and torn, disarmed and defenseless She is overshadowed by a colossus that is trying to enslave and swallow...
...does the feminine mind (Radcliffe girl) react to the functional, "antisceptic" character of brand new dormitory? Holmes Hall, the infant colossus of the Annex, may have the conveniences that go hand in hand with the highly-touted emphasis on modern living, but some...
...sharp spired city of Luxembourg (pop. 65,000), Sunday-suited burghers, many of them heavy workers from the Grand Duchy's steel mills, stolidly watched the nine-man High Authority of the European Coal-Steel Community take charge of an industrial colossus which will outproduce Russia in steel and rival her in coal. The Schuman Plan had become fact, and with it the ceiling imposed by the Allies on Ruhr steel production was finally lifted. Behind a battery of red gladioli in Luxembourg's City Hall, the men whose job it will be to sweep away Western Europe...