Word: gargantuans
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Until last December, there was little about the Zook Building in downtown Denver to distinguish it from any other six-story office structure-except, of course, the uncompromising fact that it was named the Zook Building. But shortly before Christmas, Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. erected a gargantuan advertisement upon its roof: a $15,000, 38-ft. 9-in. model of an Old Forester bottle...
...Johnson Committee (Senate) is spot checking the armed forces, whose gargantuan appropriations, as Illinois' Paul Douglas has said, defy comprehensive study and evaluation by any Congressman. Under Texas' Lyndon Johnson, the committee has already done a vigorous research job on the high cost of military housing, boot training in Hawaii, top-heavy brass in the Pentagon. Current objectives: favoritism in military procurement; racketeering in hiring workers for overseas bases...
...beat that!" It may be pounced on frowningly and all its details subjected to legalistic analysis. It may even elicit a rebuke for exaggeration. But if the judge is in an uproarious humor, he will take the tall story and run it up several degrees higher into Gargantuan fantasy, rolling with laughter at his own verbal extravagance...
...moves in on the eligible Heston. A jealous Prussian elephant trainer (Lyle Bettger), foiled by Heston when trying to plant an elephant's foot on Gloria's pretty face, joins a plot to halt the circus train and rob the cashier's car. He causes a gargantuan train wreck-for which De Mille demolished full-sized trains (TIME, May 7). The wreck not only awakens Betty's love for Heston and her organizing genius in effecting the circus's comeback, but unmasks a clown (James Stewart) as a great surgeon who has been hiding behind...
NATO (12 nations), meeting in Rome. The rank and brass of the North Atlantic alliance assembled in what used to be known as the Foro Mussolini, a flamboyant pile of buildings, Gargantuan statues and stone slabs commemorating Fascist triumphs. Heading the yoman U.S. delegation: three cabinet members (Acheson, Lovett and Snyder) and the nation's top ranking soldier, General Omar Bradley...