Word: giant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil has a spreading highway net, modernized railroads, more than $1 billion worth of new power dams, improved port facilities, even a $100 million new capital in the interior-Brasilia-that focuses the nation's eyes on the untapped west. Along with this public investment, a private industrial giant has grown up at the lively pace of the sambas that are played in some factories to keep production hopping. Samples...
Trickiest of the hormones has been the one secreted by the pituitary gland, which stimulates growth. Overproduction in childhood makes a giant. In the adult it can cause acromegaly (a localized form of gigantism, with enlargement of the jaw and extremities), can also aggravate diabetes and may speed the spread of cancer originating in the breast. Hitherto, the only way to halt the effects of growth hormone was to destroy the pituitary by radiation or surgery (TIME, May 16, 1955). But Drs. Martin Sonenberg and William Money described a new gimmick that has worked in animals: they treat growth hormone...
...thought is enough to make one weep. Today, when a courageous little country dares to defy a giant in the name of freedom, the same freedom which the whole free world endlessly chants about, it fights alone. It is a lonely and futile fight indeed that inevitably has to be lost while the rest of the free world stands by and pours torrents upon torrents of sympathetic words...
...anyway before the brooding statue of Liberator Jose Marti in Plaza Civica. Motorcycle cops led off in new white crash helmets, followed by marines in maroon berets, MPs in black berets, and more than 206,000 laborers. "Fidel,'when you get time, remember the chauffeurs," pleaded one giant placard. But the Reds knew Castro's new mood; pro-Communist sloganeering was conspicuously missing...
...Giant is the third)--Ed. note...