Word: gargantuans
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Since Jan. 18, thousands of Boston drivers have taken advantage of the latest blessing afforded them by the gargantuan public works project known as the Big Dig—a tunnel connecting Logan airport to the Massachusetts Turnpike. The three-and-a-half mile tunnel, which runs above an active subway and below Amtrak and commuter rail train lines, is an engineering feat for the history books. After 12 years and $6.5 billion, the tunnel officially completes Interstate Highway 90, which now reaches all the way across the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean...
...potent work to date. Looking to old-school predecessors for inspiration, he ditches his trademark angular stutter-step to anchor the beats in thunderous boom-bap, charging them with a newfound immediacy. The low-end artillery in “Funky Fresh Dressed” sounds made for a gargantuan boom box, and “Slide’s” ominous boom reels in the body like a black hole. Though technology coats the beats in platinum, the classic hip-hop samples laced throughout the album lend them a welcome mustiness...
...offhanded remarks at Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party. The entire national media had arrived en masse to cover yet another civil rights-related story in Mississippi. What has been missing from the debate about whether Lott is a mean-spirited bigot or a states' rights patriot is the gargantuan leaps forward made by the state since Thurmond announced his presidential ambitions at the 1948 Dixiecrat Convention...
...enthusiastically willing informers—Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, the infamous right-hand man of mafioso John Gotti, did not turn himself in to the FBI in a contrite moment. But mob informers, at least, have some credible punishment over their heads—gargantuan jail sentences. By contrast, Iraqi scientists have little to fear from anyone until they defect...
...pair of rhinestone earrings from Joan’s. The soda is infinitely more romantic and, besides, should have a far higher resale value). Portions are similarly super-sized: A trip to the Cheesecake Factory is not for the faint of heart (literally). The Cheesecake Factory’s gargantuan portions—and customers—ensure that, in spite of the economic downturn, there should be no shortage of work for Beth Israel’s cardiac specialists...