Word: colossuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half-century ago, San Francisco looked as if it might become the great city of the West. Instead, it has remained a charming, eccentric and physically beguiling minor metropolis. Los Angeles, in the unlikely event that it ever should overcome its centrifugal forces, may yet become the Western colossus. Though it has many parts of greatness, Chicago, on the other hand, has always thought of itself as the "second city"-and so it always will be, if not third or fourth. Even without the political power that resides in a national capital-one of the usual prerequisites for civic greatness...
...Wood's wisest moves was pioneering an employee profit-sharing plan that now owns 22% of the company's stock. He retired in 1954 but remained as a director until last year, helping to oversee the company that he built into an $8 billion-a-year colossus...
Worn not at all by time or constant airing, Shakespeare doth bestride the summered continent like a colossus...
...PERIOD in the arts has so mesmerized succeeding generations of artists, or so bewildered the public, as the years from 1882 to 1935 -- years of almost constant musical detonations. The main crisis was that the girdling shadow of the colossus Wagner had to be escaped. The entire community of Europe agonied in the punishing ascendency of the magnificent nineteenth century figures: Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Metternich, Bismarck, Darwin. Music was caught in a vortex of gigantic, lavish attempts at the final romantic masterpiece. Mahler's Eighth Symphony, Richard Strauss's Symphonia Domestica and Alpine Symphony, Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melisande...
Even as millions of Swift & Co. "Butterball" turkeys were being carved last week, the Chicago-based meat-packing colossus announced that it had little to be thankful for this year. In fiscal 1968, which ended in October, sales dropped 5% to $2.8 billion, and Swift suffered a $42 million overall loss...