Word: colossuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rioting and killing are over temporarily, at least, and the United States still stands astride the Panama Canal like a colossus, but the Panamanians have refused to peep about below in search of dishonorable graves. Unless a last-minute agreement intervenes, the Organization of American States will meet this afternoon to consider Panama's charge of armed agression by the United States on January...
Whenever an American housewife uses a detergent, an African woman buys a mammy cloth, or an Englishman pops into a fish-and-chips shop for a snack, the chances are good that the company that will profit is a corporate colossus called Unilever...
...blessed with a visage full of character to start with, and knows how to walk, gesture, shake his head, blink his eyes, and in general supplement his speech with telling effect. We are caught up by this colossus of a Lear, who has not yet learned that you can't eat your cake and have it too: he wants to give up the crown and at the same time hold...
...colossus of the macabre, a master of delightful fantasy and outrageous homicide...
...Died. Eugene Alan ("Big Daddy") Lipscomb, 31, fearsome all-pro colossus (6 ft. 6 in., 288 Ibs., 7-ft. arm spread) for the Baltimore Colts from 1956 to 1960 and then for the Pittsburgh Steelers, the "fastest big, big man" in football; of suspected narcotics poisoning; in Baltimore. Someone once asked him why he solicitously helped up the opponents he had flattened. "I don't want people or kids to think Big Daddy is a cruel man," he explained...