Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Huge jumps in costs are the latest peril of the petro-pinch...
...college green, backed by the high white tower of Baker Library, stands a huge snow sculpture of a prospector panning for gold, so tall (25 ft.) and so frozen that it had to be finished off by students climbing around with pitons and ice axes. On the hilly parts of the college golf course, assorted men of Dartmouth are cheerfully risking life and limb at a crowd-pleasing contest called the Downhill Canoe Race. The Skyway Lodge is full of schussers past and schussers yet-to-be, dates, officials, boots, parkas, day-packs, the friendly slurp of gulped hot chocolate...
...uproar rose, it turned out the mayor had hired a former city hall crony to prepare a new snow-removal plan, and paid him $90,000 to do it. The resulting 23-page paper proved to be hardly better than a high school essay. Then came revelations of similar huge consulting fees to other political buddies. Chicagoans' anger increased. Finally stung, Bilandic made a bizarre speech in which he likened the attacks on him to the Crucifixion and the criticism of the city to the Holocaust. He charged that the same "subversives" who had toppled governments in Iran...
Small and big traders and middlemen are charging huge spot-market premiums over and above the OPEC price. Because profits can reach billions a year, you have to expect that the spot trade will increase by hook or crook, and I mean the words literally. When OPEC sees how much money is made on its oil by in-between traders, the producing countries will have no political choice but to increase their own prices and divert more oil to the spot market. That was clear from the moment the Iranian crisis broke. Our Government was made well aware...
...scene at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco was vaguely surreal. In the pews was an audience of 1,500, sedate as any churchgoers. Ranged about them in a huge semicircle was a gleaming array of 80 trombonists, as if a parade had lost its way and sought sanctuary...