Word: colossus
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...lank, hard-bargaining hotelman named Conrad Nicholson Hilton, 59, longed to own something really big. Inevitably, his gaze fell upon the world's biggest hotel: Chicago's 2,700-room Stevens. Last week, for $7,500,000, Innkeeper Hilton proudly added the Chicago colossus to his string of 13 hotels (including Manhattan's Plaza and Roosevelt, and Los Angeles' swank Town House...
...build-up was terrific. Sport pages groaned with the burden of adjectives striving to describe the forthcoming super-colossus. And when Army and Navy finally did get down to the business of beating each other's brains out, it certainly was a game of games. But the miracle that would have made it live up to the advance billing was AWOL. So was the upset that incurable hopefuls had held their breath for. When it was over, Army was still the best in the land and Navy was runner...
...sense of destiny was destined to fall foul of the suspicions of other Latin American countries; of the fact that Argentines have long believed that their special role is willy-nilly to defend the South American continent against the Colossus of the North; and of the fact that the U.S., engaged in a life & death struggle with the Axis, was lining up the Latin American nations on her side under the guise of the Good Neighbor Policy...
Meanwhile Colonel Perón and the proud Argentines were exhilarated, most Latin Americans were secretly (or openly) delighted, and even some North Americans were amused to see the brat from the Rio de la Plata stand up and sass back the Colossus of the North...
Mortally wounded though it was, the Wehrmacht lashed back last week at the Red colossus with the heaviest German counterattacks since the start of the Soviet offensive in late June. The Germans had traded too much space for too little time; now there was nothing left to trade but flesh and steel...