Word: herculean
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...turn of the century, U.S. industry's herculean hunger for capital forced most private businesses to "go public." Today, entering an even more radically different era of expanding world trade and multiplying common markets, U.S. corporations may have to take the next logical step and, says General Motors' Chairman Frederic G. Donner, "go global...
...cartoon, in a satirical French weekly, shows Charles de Gaulle all gussied up in Louis XIV garb as he packs a herculean suit of armor and Cyrano-sized nosepiece for a sally across the Rhine. "Madame," says the general to his wife, "will you please not forget my pajamas." No Dish Twice. But France's President will have very little time for sleep in the course of a strenuous six-day visit to West Germany this week. From Hamburg in the north to Munich in the south, the Germans-at De Gaulle's request-have laid...
...managed to expand Britain's trade with the Common Market. A tough, pragmatic bargainer who is trusted by the party's right wing (he did not oppose the Suez invasion), he was picked last year to succeed Iain Macleod as Colonial Secretary, has quietly demolished some herculean roadblocks in the path of independence for African territories, notably in reaching agreement last month on a five-year plan to settle 70,000 landless natives on a million acres of Kenya's choice White Highland farmland...
...Britain's exports a herculean 40% over the next four years...
Jungle Jim Ullyot, the CRIME's strong right-footed quarterback, threw three Herculean touchdown passes to had the home team's relentless attack. The CRIME racked up a total of 456 yards 451 in the air and five on the ground as halfback Tom (the Bomb) Pepper tripped on a beer can and rolling 15 feet down the riverbank...