Word: gargantuans
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...World Peace Through the Rule of Law: "It's the best statement of international law that exists." But lip service to international law is scant guarantee of international peace, said Rhyne. "unless a structure is created permitting the peaceful settlement of disputes." Otherwise, "it seems inevitable that the gargantuan military establishments created for our protection, and which are suspended over all of us like a sword of Damocles, may ultimately be used for our mutual destruction ... It is an unfortunate truth of our era that at a time of so many spectacular achievements, the area of knowledge...
...last appearance in his Naples parish church. The late vice lord was encased in a mahogany casket. Following a eulogyless Requiem Mass and a brief bout of fisticuffs between a Luciano pal and a photographer who tried to snap "Charlie Lucky's" last girl friend, a gaudy and gargantuan funeral carriage drawn by eight beplumed horses carried the corpse to temporary rest at the English Cemetery in suburban Poggioreale. Next stop, in compliance with the deported hoodlum's often-expressed wish: the Luciano family mausoleum at St. John's Cemetery in Queens...
...distorted, insufficient and indefinite." Yet most of these experts pay homage to his scope, his overall grasp, the boldness of his vision. Relatively, time has been on Toynbee's side. In 1935, reviewing the first three volumes of the Study, the Journal of Modern History sniped: "A Gargantuan feast, shall we say? Or is it hash and not chopped up fine enough at that...
...board of regents. Gallagher, picked from 180 candidates during a five-month search, is the new system's operating boss. He inherits a frenetically expanding empire, stretching from Humboldt State in the north to San Diego State in the south. As Gallagher put it, the Gargantuan system is "full of dynamism. There is a tremendous job to be done out here...
...Leverett House we have it now; one waits in line in the dining hall for fifteen minutes at a time, signs up for the pool table two days in advance, and dances in rooms so packed that any movement whatever requires gargantuan effort. But evidently we have only a preview of things to come. O. Kimball Armayer...