Word: giant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael Lathan of Cornell University testified to the board that there could be no doubt bottle-feeding is a major cause of infant mortality. Lathan said Nestle has taken some measures, but added that they are "small steps when giant strides are needed...
...Bruins are downright Lestyrgonian all down the line but the giant of the offensive line...
Despite these grievances against their giant neighbors to the north and south, Andorrans are unlikely to seek complete independence as they enter their 8th century as subjects of the co-Princes. Said one Andorran shopkeeper last week: "It's as it says in our national anthem: 'Faithful and free I wish to live, with my Princes as my protectors...
...name of the factory suburb on the outskirts of Cracow is as drab and anonymous as the upright slabs of apartments that crowd its barren hills: Nowa Huta-New Foundry. Conceived by the Polish Communist state as a counterweight to "reactionary" central Cracow, Nowa Huta is home to the giant, 35,000-employee Lenin Steelworks, one of the largest in Europe. As originally planned, the town was to have schools, shops, theaters, recreation halls and a hospital-but no church. The workers wanted one. After the anti-regime riots of 1956, they won grudging permission from the state to build...
...Tucson, Ariz., the squat, rectangular building with the gaping hole in its sides and roof looks like a space-age barn. In fact, the strange structure is somewhat out of this world. Now in its final stage of testing, it is the prototype of a new generation of giant optical telescopes that could open fresh vistas on the heavens - and, by astronomy's standards, at bargain-basement prices...