Word: gargantuans
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...visitor to the computer control room has to walk by gargantuan blue and green pipes of the chilled water plant, another part of Harvard's often confusing energy program. The chilled water plant was built about six years ago, along with the Science Center. The plant pumps water at about 39 degrees Fahrenheit to 13 buildings. The water is then used in the air conditioning systems of those buildings...
...persuasion - their stamina. "They do much better on less sleep and liquor than their male counterparts." And he was surprised to find that Gloria Steinem was "a self-confessed junk-food freak. When I interviewed her over dinner, her meal consisted entirely of a cup of coffee and a gargantuan strawberry sundae...
...headmaster of the old school, down to his gray herringbone suit and rimless glasses, McCormack finds it difficult to keep tabs on his gargantuan school from his office in a converted second-floor storeroom. He blames Medford's problems mostly on the crowding produced when 1,100 freshmen were jammed in with the three upper classes?but not on any lack of spirit. Other principals might give up; not he. A giant blue and white button on his lapel broadcasts his philosophy. It is emblazoned MEDFORD PRIDE...
...Columbia Broadcasting System offers endless, some would say interminable, hours of football and basketball, without either a sense of humor or a sense of proportion. The last is just as well for CBS. Football players have been fed and exercised into gargantuan size. Basketball players have been crossbred with giraffes. CBS announcers suggest we identify with football and basketball stars. I identify more easily with King Kong (in the original black-and-white version...
...sense, Saint Laurent has designed the emperor's new clothes. His soft, flowing dresses, characterized by full sleeves and a loose obi caressing the hips, are adaptations of angular Chinese designs. Over these dresses or over satin pants are worn gargantuan wraps-a peplum coat sewn with real gold thread cloth, costing over $200 a meter, or a massive Genghis Khan jacket made of iridescent brocades and lined with fur. Saint Laurent set off his ensembles with high-heeled boots and a variety of hats, including pillbox and coolie styles...