Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stable price for crude, the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries last week gave the oil-thirsting world its worst petro-gouging in more than five years. Rich and poor alike, the oil-importing nations are still struggling to recover from the recession that followed OPEC's huge price rises of 1973 and 1974. The latest assault, which is expected to send an incredible $182 billion cascading into the cartel's overflowing coffers by year's end, is almost guaranteed to plunge even the strongest economies into an oil-greased slide all over again...
Baker's specific objections to the treaty appeared to offer little hope of eventual compromise with the Administration. He urged, for example, that the Soviets be required to dismantle their 308 huge S59 and SS-18 missile launchers. Their firepower, said Baker, is "equal to all of our strategic ballistic missile systems put together." Drastic cuts actually had been suggested by Carter two years ago-and immediately ridiculed by the Soviets. In fact, the U.S. in the 1960s decided against building anything like the Soviets' SS-9s and SS-18s, which are liquid-fueled ICBMs, and developed instead...
Aron has marshaled a huge arsenal of facts to prove that the U.S.S.R has lagged behind the West in productivity, living standards, scientific progress and human rights. His summary: "If the virtues of an economic regime are measured by its capacity to answer the wishes of the population, organize the rational allocation of resources and efficiently produce the goods necessary to the physical and moral well-being of individual people, the Soviet experience remains to this day the most spectacular failure in history...
...coral reefs, which ripped open the hulls of landing craft. The Bay of Pigs had been chosen partly for its assumed isolation from Castro's defending army. As they churned toward shore, the invaders were startled to find part of the beach bathed in light from huge lamps installed by the Cubans against precisely such a pre-dawn strike. Later, they even discovered two microwave radio towers alongside the bay. Far offshore, the U.S. Navy maneuvered four destroyers in a manner designed to scare Cuban radar operators into thinking that a massive Normandy-style landing was under...
Crane Beach. Ipswich. This is a legend. The huge stretch of Ipswich land was once owned by the family which brought you America Standard toilets and seats, and the Castle overlooking the beach (on Castle Hill) was their home. Castle Hill is now open to the public, and it is often used for weddings. Crane Beach is probably the North Shore's most popular beach, and all of the property is owned and maintained by the Trustees of Reservations...