Word: gargantuans
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...reason why the first-half expansion of the money supply failed to produce the vigorous growth in the economy in late 1971 that some monetarists had expected. The Federal Reserve governors eventually concluded that they were pushing out money faster than the economy needed-especially in view of a gargantuan flight of dollars abroad-and decided to hold down the money supply again...
...true direction of Fred Harris' presidential campaign is evidenced by the fact that he had to withdraw due to lack of funds. The black and the poor of this country are in no position to contribute to the gargantuan needs of a modern presidential campaign; and a man advocating a massive redistribution of wealth is not going to receive funds from the upper class, which stands to lose the most if he succeeds...
...Tokyo, Connally is clearly trying to force a settlement with Japan and use it to pressure European countries into upvaluing their currencies against the dollar. For the moment, European disunity gives the U.S. the advantage, and Connally's strategy just might work. But he is taking the gargantuan risk that a continuing impasse could hobble world trade badly enough to touch off a global recession. Connally recently remarked that he feels "under no compulsion to settle." Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns does not share that insouciance. Testifying to the House Banking and Currency Committee earlier this month. Burns said...
When drama at Harvard is mentioned, the gargantuan Loeb Drama Center and the Loeb Experimental Theatre immediately come to mind. Both are intended primarily for student use. And any Harvard-Radcliffe chartered organization may utilize Agassiz Theatre (in Radcliffe Yard). But it is theatre in the Houses which has long been the important source of student exposure to drama and is more integrated into the college community than the other theatres...
...dish tends to be greeted with the same ritually stupefied reverence. Hence la légende Picasso, which has been energetically prodded along by writers like Hélène Parmelin and photographers like David Douglas Duncan and Gjon Mili. From their breathless accounts a satyr rises, mythic, Gargantuan, and fatally easy to parody. The Maestro's working day, one might suppose, begins with a light breakfast of goat's testicles and salade niçoise. Then, surrounded by a flock of admiring tame doves, he descends to his studio and executes 30 engravings, two murals...