Word: enormouse
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Absurdist Playwright Eugène Ionesco is known for his use of logic taken to farcical extremes. But even without 20-20 apocalyptic vision, it is possible to imagine the world ending in an enormous eruption. Of all the demonstrations of nature's awesome power, few are as dramatic...
The world's consummate amateur, George Plimpton, has called signals for the Detroit Lions, played tennis with Pancho Gonzales, boxed with Archie Moore and pitched to Willie Mays-all in the name of journalistic curiosity and publishable profit. "Ernest Hemingway once said that my daydreams were the dark side...
Foresters have used enormous D9 Caterpillar tractors to help dig a 60-mile fire line around 40% of the blaze. Hoping to squeeze off some of the rest, Al West, an official of the Los Padres National Forest, ordered the construction of an eightmile, 30-to 40-ft.-wide road...
In the 1930s and '40s, the sands of northeast Africa were a cockpit of conflict between rival European colonial powers, chiefly Britain and Italy. Today, in both Eritrea and Ogaden, the central issue is the integrity of national boundaries, v. self-determination by individual provinces or tribal groups. The...
The new sections are not all that's new at the New York Times these days. Under Sulzberger the Times has redesigned its pages, reshuffled its enormous staff,