Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lilting Music. Such outbursts of bookishness threaten to tip the novel into a treatise. Fortunately, Mcllvanney always manages to regain his balance by hitting the streets. His evocations of the old city seem etched in ancient stone and rubbed with coal dust. Laidlaw runs his investigation from a fading hotel...
SACCHARIN. After laboratory rats that consumed enormous amounts of it developed cancer, the FDA proposed banning saccharin from commercially prepared foods and beverages but allowing its sale as a nonprescription drug.
Ireland's Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave, with his wisp of mustache, starched collar, bowler hat and understated manner, often looks like a Downstairs character asking a small favor of the man Upstairs. And indeed, until recently, the Irish were among the profligates of Europe, living it up as if...
The surge in lending has been spurred by the vast balance of payments surpluses piled up by members of the OPEC oil cartel. In particular, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates have been unable to spend their new-found wealth fast enough, and they have deposited enormous sums...
The scope of McCullough's book is enormous: he illuminates the arenas of politics, finances, science, engineering and sociology. He moves through his subject like one of those 95-ton Bucyrus steam shovels that gnawed their way across Panama. Facts are turned up by the cubic yard, sorted and...