Word: colossus
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...become the terror of the people they liberated. "Better the French as enemies," German peasants were beginning to say, "than the Russians as friends." The fears of Europe were much the same as the world's today: "What if. having occupied Finland, Bessarabia and Poland, the northern colossus should now strike southwards across the central Asian deserts to the Indian Ocean?" And when British Foreign Secretary Castlereagh opposed a puppet Poland under Russian control, "he was curtly informed that Russia, already in occupation of Poland, possessed an army of 600,000 men." Most familiar of all: "[Castlereagh] knew that...
...approved by FCC and the stockholders of both companies; it will probably be months before it is finally okayed. If all goes well, Goldenson will combine ABC's 294 affiliated stations with Paramount's 950 theaters (600 wholly owned, 350 partly owned), in a new colossus of the U.S. entertainment industry...
...himself as a road-company Machiavelli hopelessly fascinated by criminal and political types ("I just loved to study Joe Adonis"). And Frank Costello, refusing to have his face televised, and finally refusing to talk at all while the cameras concentrated on his fidgeting hands, emerged as a wire-pulling colossus, a sort of bogus Bernard Baruch of the underworld...
...ready for the next step. Tapped for command, he was moved to G.E.'s gold-domed building on Manhattan's Lexington Avenue. In 1939, Swope resigned; Charlie Wilson, his handpicked successor, became president of the G.E. colossus at $175,000 a year...
...Chinese empire. If she succeeds, we will not only be excluded from these markets, but we shall stand face to face with a power controlling an extent of territory and a mass of population the like of which the world has never seen. In the presence of such a colossus of despotism and military socialism, the welfare of every free people is in danger." Lodge said this in 1899, long before the military socialism of the czars had degenerated into the military socialism of the Bolsheviks...