Word: gargantuans
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...College is forced to shell out still more money to accommodate the gargantuan quantities of garbage produced by students moving out of their dorms...
...afloat, in effect acting as a one-man Federal Reserve System six years before the real Fed was created. He made plenty of money for himself in the process, of course, but not quite as much as popular myth would suggest. The estate he left in 1913, including his gargantuan art collection, was valued at $80 million, around a tenth of Andrew Carnegie's wealth...
...road that runs along the Hudson River--or, really, stumbles along the Hudson River--on the western edge of Manhattan. By chance, it once gave me a strong intimation of mortality. In 1973 portions of the highway collapsed, triggering years of arguments about replacing it with a gargantuan project called Westway and then more years of constant construction whose purpose has never been apparent. Sitting in a traffic jam maybe 15 years after the original collapse, I was suddenly hit with the realization that I was not going to live to see the West Side Highway back in regular operation...
...Sterile and deafeningly quiet, the Science Center terminal rooms offer everything from ancient Macs that still require a paper clip to extract your floppy disk, to the Digital Alpha workstations with their gargantuan monitors. A word to the wise: don't check your e-mail on these mothers the night before CS51 assignments are due. Office isn't installed on those bad boys anyway. Stroll on over to the back of the lab, and try to find a computer that isn't either occupied or "logging out." If you're lucky, you might get to actually enter your username...
...cigarette, she nonchalantly shrugged off his advances. Paul insisted that my friend had a "stutter" and that she slurred her speech, although she had uttered all of two words. However, he quickly came to the conclusion that his own diction was out-of-whack from a beer intake of gargantuan proportions. At that point, Joanna signaled for our stage-right exit...