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Word: giantess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cosmic Casanova, an intergalactic lover boy tunes in a cute pinup on his rocketship TV screen. He makes an unscheduled landing on her tiny home planet, only to be disappointed when the hatch door opens. The girl turns out to be a giantess, and "I'd have looked like such a fool, standing there on tiptoe with my arms wrapped around her knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Captain Vertigo | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

Here is the story of the Preussen, the great German five-master, "without a doubt the greatest sailing-ship the world has seen...a supership, a swift giantess among all sailing-ships, the ultimate expression of deepwater Sail." When all of her 30 square-sails were stretched, she presented 60,000 square feet of canvas to the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Salt-Water Dirge | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...finds that her masquerade does not work, Natalie withdraws into fantasies. She begins to cut classes, skip meals, stay in her room all day and go out only at night. She comes to think of people as dolls she can manipulate - or worse, as when she imagines herself a giantess who eats houses and all the people in them "in one mouthful, chewing ruthlessly on the boards and the small sweet bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psychological Chiller | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

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