Word: giant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...site is a giant feed lot in central Florida where 20,000 cattle at a time are fattened. Their droppings will be placed into fermenter tanks filled with thermophilic (heat-loving) bacteria. As the bacteria ingest the manure at a temperature of 120°, they give off a gas that is 65% methane. Donald D. Kaplan, owner of the feed lot, says that the project is expected to provide enough fuel for all his own operations, which include a feed mill, packing house and rendering plant -with "enough left over to supply a good part of the city of Bartow...
...Emperor Bokassa looked cool and calm. He wore a white robe set off with two striped sashes in the C.A.E.'s national colors (blue, white, green, yellow and red) and a wreath of golden laurel on his balding head. Ascending his throne-shaped in the form of a giant eagle, with a 13.6-ft. wingspan, 800 gilded feathers and a seat carved out of the bird's belly-Bokassa donned a flowing ermine and velvet cape with a 39-ft. train. The Emperor then took an oath to defend the constitution, which he suspended after seizing power...
...dreads a hit from undersized defensive backs: 'When a bigger guy hits you, he just hits you enough to put you down. But those little guys are trying to take your head off; they really let down the boom on you." No matter what their target-gnat or giant-the little men can be big trouble. Is overcompensation, a Napoleon complex? Gray admits to a special joy in beating the big guys. Says he: "I like to look at the expressions on their faces after I beat them running a goal pattern. After I catch the ball, I look...
MIDWESTERN GIANT seeks experienced administrator to run nation's third largest university, with some 48,000 students, 3,405 faculty and $264 million budget. Offerings run from strong agricultural department to innovative performing arts programs. Current President Clifton Wharton, first black to head large, mostly white U.S. university, leaving at year's end to take over bigger (340,000 students) State University of New York; successor must build up small ($ 12 million) endowment, raise money to establish new law and dentistry schools and attract more renowned senior faculty. Political acumen helpful in dealing with elected trustees. Salary negotiable...
...identified - Baudelaire, Proudhon, the critic Champfleury. Professor Toussaint, however, gives a complicated new reading to the painting by suggesting that (for instance) the huntsman on the left is Napoleon III and that the central group is a Masonic allegory, with Courbet as master of the lodge. Whatever this puzzling giant of a painting may have been intended to mean, it remains one of the pictorial achievements of the 19th century. To see it surrounded by the rest of Courbet's work, as a climax to his prodigious energy, is a revelation. We are left with a less doctrinaire Courbet...