Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ambitious Carter program remains of course unfinished or, in some cases, set aside as politically and economically unfeasible. His grand schemes for welfare reform, for instance, were shunted aside in Congress and are probably dead. His promised national health care program has been scaled down because of its potentially huge costs...
Reports TIME'S White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett: "Jimmy Carter has the capacity to become a successful President. Despite the errors and disappointments of these first two years, he has demonstrated several of the necessary qualities: a huge supply of personal grit; the nerve to innovate, to take up causes even though the political deck seems stacked against him. He has a special kind of resilience, and a blend of stubbornness and flexibility. He must still prove that he has enough leadership talent to meld these qualities effectively and to persuade the nation that he can perform the missions...
...last Monday afternoon, a Chevrolet station wagon carrying five Palestinians drove slowly down the Rue Verdun in west Beirut. As it passed a parked Volkswagen, a huge plastique bomb turned the street into a violent shambles of smoke and flames. The occupants of the station wagon were mortally wounded; four passersby, including a German nun and an English student, were killed, and 18 others were injured...
...although weak in the breaststroke events since the premature departure of Tuomo Kerola, have some flexible talent in Hackett, sophomore standout Mike Coglin, and Maximoff, which leaves room for strategy in the butterfly, IM, and freestyle events. Jamie Greacen and Steve Schramm can be counted on to provide a huge boost in the diving, and Malcolm Cooper and recently returned Julian Mack will have to hold down the sprints...
...come at any moment. I really grew panicky when Gilles switched his lit cigarette from his right hand to his mouth. Even that I could live with until he leaned over to peer down into the tank to see if it was full. All I could see was that huge, red ash, growing longer by the moment, poised directly above the diesel, ready to fall. Just when I was sure the ash would drop into the tank, he stepped back and tossed the cigarette to the ground. He probably never knew why I was so shaken that afternoon. I could...