Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beneath a huge sepia photograph of the general, the speakers are extolling his qualities as citizen-soldier-statesman...
...Senate floor, Republican Jacob Javits of New York and Democrat Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island urged that the U.S. and other countries establish a huge airlift of food and medicine into Cambodia if Phnom-Penh persists in refusing to allow a "land bridge" for trucks to enter Cambodia from Thailand with supplies. A bipartisan group of 68 House members urged Carter to set up a joint airlift with the Soviet Union. The plan was first suggested by the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh of the University of Notre Dame. Said he: "I'm perfectly willing to ride in the lead truck...
...Iraqi government has decreed free medical services and free education and launched an impressive campaign to stamp out illiteracy, with fines and jail terms for those between 15 and 45 who refuse to learn to read and write. There are also notable failures. Agricultural production has lagged, despite huge irrigation and land-reclamation projects. Housewives frequently do without such basic foods as potatoes, onions or eggs. Baghdad is afflicted by urban sprawl, air pollution and strained water and electrical facilities...
...make the Administration's motives seem purely economic. The Secretary explained that the higher aid package was necessary in part because the company now needed "greater resources than were apparently required in August." Actually, the Administration had known that Chrysler's third-quarter deficit would be huge, and in fact last September the company had forecast an even larger loss...
...might guess, was not easy. At times, says Daughter Soames, Churchill behaved like "a spoiled and naughty child." Clementine, for her part, was almost too responsible; she drove herself and others mercilessly. In addition to running several residences, entertaining and helping Winston win elections, she took on huge administrative jobs: organizing canteens during both wars and heading fund-raising drives...