Word: gargantuanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over at Algiers on Jan. 8, after General Dwight Eisenhower had moved on to the European invasion command in London. What Wilson acquired included some first-class tactical worries, headaching problems of supply, a set of tarnished political problems. All of these and more were wrapped up in a gargantuan geographic command, running from the Turko-Syrian border through the Mediterranean and across Africa to Dakar. Any operation against Europe from Gibraltar to the Dardanelles would be his problem...
Jimmy wears glasses now ('"for readin' da racin' form'") and his hair, despite violent applications of every tonic known to barbers, has thinned ("I'm known as the surrey with the fringe on top"). But his Gargantuan energy is unabated. Suite No. 472 is never locked. Friends swarm through the place...
Private Life, Public Saturnalia. Dumas' private life became a public saturnalia of love affairs, gargantuan gastronomy, successes in the theater, speculations on the Bourse, financial crashes, perpetual indebtedness from which he sometimes escaped by travels that took him to Russia, Transcaucasia, Africa...
Most Americans now 40 were still in their 20s when Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House; thousands of U.S. soldiers and sailors fighting around the world remember no other President. Yet associates still marvel at his Gargantuan appetite for work, his ability to relax in the midst of it, his endless gay optimism. As it has to everyone else, the strain of war has wrenched, strained and hacked at his basic traits of character. But in the President's case the grind has only polished what was already polished, only toughened what was already steel-strong...
...provide an overall plan, short, sharp-eyed Arthur Dare Whiteside, boss of WPB's Office of Civilian Requirements, is sweating his small staff twelve hours a day. Their first task: to find out what is the bedrock level of U.S. civilian needs. This is a Gargantuan job. In peacetime, 300,000 consumer articles were turned out by U.S. factories. In wartime, OCR Boss Whiteside thinks bedrock may be a mere fraction of these, some 1,500 to 2,000 articles. Soon OCR Boss Whiteside will have his list, will know for the first time what items are needed, what...