Word: gargantuanism
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Yesterday S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Inter-Cultural and Race Relations, and Natosha O. Reid '93, co-chair of the Foundation's Student Advisory Committee, said in a gargantuan letter to The Crimson that our diversity series and the subsequent editorials regarding the Harvard Foundation (actually, there was only one staff editorial) purveyed "misinformation" to our readers about Harvard's diversity and the Foundation. (Muneer I. Ahmad '93, the other co-chair of the Foundation's student board, did not sign the letter...
Take the example of a good friend of mine. Two weeks before the deadline, he had already decided on the easiest way out-- remaining with his current roommates, forming a group of four. Before he knew what had hit him, a gargantuan rooming block of 18 had mushroomed out of control...
Simplicity aside, this gargantuan sentence is about as clear as the objective in the Gulf War. See, they even repeat that objective in case it wasn't clear to you. How could it be unclear if it was so clear? Didn't they go to the trouble to print thousands of those little cards that listed, one through four, the reasons we were there...
...system. In September 1990 he announced he favored the so-called 500-Day Plan for a sudden switch to a free-market system. But then he lost his nerve and reneged, opting for a "compromise" between dramatic change and another round of tentative tinkering with the gargantuan central-planning apparatus...
...Korenek drives his 90-ft. rig from Santa Fe to Washington this week, heads may turn. After all, it's not every day a gargantuan blue spruce is moved from the forests of northern New Mexico to the groomed lawns of Capitol Hill. This is the first year a living tree -- complete with a 40-ton root ball -- will serve as the nation's Christmas symbol. The 60-ft. giant will be garnished with strings of chili-pepper lights and 10,000 handmade ornaments from New Mexico, including silver coyotes, miniature pueblos, tin stars and brass jewelry...