Word: dwarfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...served George II ably as ambassador to The Hague, and was probably one of the few lord-lieutenants of Ireland whose blarney charmed the Irish. But solid triumphs abroad never netted him more than slim cabinet posts at home, and George II scornfully dubbed the diminutive earl a "dwarf-baboon...
...Speaker was invoking an old rule which provides that a word or phrase once officially banned in parliamentary debate cannot be used again. As a result, no M.P. can call another a bonehead, windbag, twister or underfed dwarf, say he lacks guts or intestinal fortitude, describe his speech as ballyhoo, cant and humbug, or cheap and nasty...
...Largely ignored a chance to hear a 60,000-word attack on Secretary of Defense George Marshall by Wisconsin's poison-tipped Joe McCarthy. Despite McCarthy's loud advance promise to expose "a conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man," only a dozen Senators were on hand when he began. In familiar fashion, McCarthy twisted quotes, drew unwarranted conclusions from the facts he did get right, accused Marshall of having "made common cause with Stalin" since 1943. By this time most of the gallery...
When completed in two years, the 17,000 houses in the $136 million Lakewood project will sprawl over 3,500 acres. With some 70,000 people, Lakewood will dwarf such long-established U.S. cities as Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and Holyoke, Mass. Land has been set aside for a massive shopping center, and additional areas are being blocked out for 17 churches, 20 schools and 37 playgrounds. So fast were lots grabbed up that when one church delayed its decision on a location for a week, it found that 91 home foundations had been built on the site it wanted...