Word: giant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fear Giant Carnival...
Nevertheless, for all his tergiversations, Nehru had taken, for Nehru, his own giant step. For the first time, he actually talked back to the Chinese Communists. When Peking declared that any discussion of the Tibet rebellion in the Indian Parliament would be "impolite and improper," Nehru hotly retorted: "It is open to this House, this Parliament, to discuss any matter it chooses." He even expressed public doubt as to the authenticity of the "rather surprising letters" the Dalai Lama was supposed to have written. "I should like to have a little greater confirmation about them," he said, "about what they...
Butcher in Field. Thanks to good fortune with rookies, the rest of the Giant team looks solid. First Baseman Cepeda, 21, a big, amiable Puerto Rican, broke in last year with a .312 batting average, 25 home runs, 96 runs batted in ("I butcher in field," he says, "but you forget bad field when I hit"). Catcher Bob Schmidt, 25, hit 14 homers as a rookie last year. Third Baseman Jim Davenport, 25, hits adequately (.256), fielded so brilliantly in his freshman season that he is already considered one of the major's best glove men. Switched to shortstop...
...incomes of less than $3,810 a year could subscribe. By tempting the purses of middle-class citizens, the government hopes both to keep them from socialism and to tap the $9.3 billion West Germans have locked up in small savings accounts. The next issue will probably be the giant Viag heavy-industry holding company (coal, aluminum, steel, copper, electric power). By next year the government hopes to get legal complications out of the way, sell Germany's famed Volkswagen company to small stockholders. Said Economics Minister Erhard: "The successful issue of People's Shares is a milestone...
...transformed by turns into a snarling tiger ("His loins," says the program, "are heavy with solitude"), an arm-flapping eagle, a scared rat ("His heart is full of holes, like a cheese"). In a later scene he encountered assorted characters, including Romeo and Venus, who stepped from a giant pearl shell in a flesh-colored leotard. At one point he joined Death in a game of cards, with Eurydice's midriff serving as table. The deafening last scene found Orpheus hanging by his heels from the flies...