Word: gargantuans
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...Barbara's joint fear of and attraction to the limelight is a legitimate inheritance. For a generation before she entered the theater, her father Norman had rumbled and roared like an earthquake in the foundations of show business, making plans, productions, money, noise, friends and enemies on a gargantuan scale. The example of his unbridled imagination and breezy pressagentry taught Barbara early in life that the theater could be both sheen and shoddy...
...Haven, where garrulous, gargantuan (300 lbs.) Herman Hickman, 39, was in the midst of his third season at Yale, the situation was quite different. The Elis had won five of their first seven games, the best season in Hickman's regime so far. Though Hickman (Tennessee '32) was no Old Blue, Yale liked him fine. The Yale Athletic Department also liked the corn-pone drawl in which Hickman had announced his coaching aim at New Haven: to win just enough games "to keep the alumni sullen but not mutinous." Though Hickman's five-year contract still...
There is one principle of education about which Griswold is already certain, that colleges cannot be both gargantuan and really effective...
Next door, in Old Bailey, life was just as sordid. In their dining room upstairs, the judges "indulged in feasts of gargantuan size" at state expense, then came staggering drunkenly down to pass sentence. Householders with windows looking out on the gallows had a lucrative business on hanging days. "As much as ?10 a seat was demanded," says Author O'Donnell, "and the surrounding viewpoints in the street were thronged with deliriously excited men & women who gathered in position on the eve of the execution, whiling away the long night hours with song and dance and drunken debauch...
...years as a nation, the U.S. has produced few such spectacles as the colossal birth throes of the Grand Coulee Dam. Its grey and gargantuan bulk was eight years (1933-41) abuilding, and in that time armies of sightseers wended their way into a scarred and desolate canyon of the Columbia River, 150 airline miles east of Seattle, to goggle at the horrid obstetrics...