Word: colossus
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...next ten days President Prado, visiting U.S. war-production centers, would plainly see how the once-feared Colossus of the North was pouring its fabulous wealth of men and money and guns against an enemy that threatened Peru...
...spite of all these services, New York City parents are notoriously discontented with their schools, year by year have moved in greater numbers to the suburbs for the express purpose of escaping from a colossus too big for its own good...
...nobles. Even the poorest citizen of ancient Rome somehow found it within his means to proffer a spicy gift to the gods. In ancient Greece, where bread-baking was a fine art, the city of Rhodes was as famous for its gingerbread as it was for its harbor-bestriding Colossus. Part of the loot that the roving Crusaders carried home was culinary lore of the East, including the recipe for gingerbread. As spices came to be a more common property, the great mass of the people took gingerbread to its heart, and it became a cherished heritage in the universal...
...political pattern of the hemisphere remains that of international anarchy." The Latin American countries distrust the Colossus of the North. There is a latent conflict between Argentina and Brazil, an other between Chile and Peru. There is the old grudge between the U.S. and Argentina...
...commercial relationships with each other." Dr. Vila, and, according to him, the South American people, believe that the Administration's policy of the "good neighbor" is one of real friendship and concrete benefit to both nations, rather than being merely a cloak for the imperialistic ambitions by the colossus of the north...