Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing but praise for the right-side pair: "Both are very good at making adjustments based on the defensive man's first move. On our last TD against Dartmouth, they picked up the blitz on a '25 blast' play, and because they saw it coming there was a huge hole for Ralph to run through...
While stressing that she was not speaking for the Carter administration, Berry added that HEW suspects that inflation would result in "a huge effective subsidy from the taxpayer" and that some aspects of the plan "would intrude into decision--making processes of private institutions...
Shanghai boasts China's best department store. Called Number One, the stark, cavernous but well-stocked emporium attracts 100,000 shoppers a day. There are always eager crowds, but no lines, around the toy counter, which offers such items as a huge stuffed panda for $47, a solidly built dump truck for about $4.75, and a battery-powered submachine gun for $6.25. A Shanghai-made black-and-white TV set costs around $428, a solid-state radio $33. A nice chess set goes for $8.50, good basketball shoes for $5.25. The high-collared Chung-shan chuang, the so-called...
...mirrors when one would do? Because it is far easier to cast, grind and mount several small mirrors than one huge one. At $8 million, MMT's cost was a fourth of a comparable conventional telescope's price...
Down came the technological slogans in the square of Brno, Czechoslovakia (pop. 365,000). Up went huge posters of an intense-looking, white-haired man who could be a commanding commissar but who, in Brno at least, is more venerated than any socialist leader: Czech Composer Leoš Janáček. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of its composer's death and the 125th of his birth, Brno has opened a yearlong Janacek celebration, beginning with 27 musical events in a two-week-long gala festival. Students, soldiers and scores of foreign scholars jammed six concert halls...