Word: huges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Oak, water and fire rose even higher. We saw one waterspout after another followed by a series of huge explosions-white, red and green lights in a fireworks display such as I never had seen before. Pieces of deckwork, masts and smokestacks flew up into the air, giving the impression that the entire ship was blown completely to smithereens...
...precisely this same comment which is called for if we sit still and watch assault, arson and murder on a huge national and international scale and do nothing about...
...Japanese Foreign Office has always been a sort of super-club. Its positions offer security, rank, travel, perhaps titles, and most important, a chance to represent the Emperor. When it heard about the proposed Trade Ministry, it rose in its pride and told its new Admiral-Minister, huge, jovial, mild Kichisaburo Nomura, to make the Cabinet behave...
This question was justified by the condition of many a manufacturer's order books: to provide against price rises and shortage, his customers had swamped him with orders; now they have ordered and the foreign war purchasers have not yet come along; he has a huge backlog but few new orders coming in. Shall he operate at 100% till January-and trust to the gods for 1940 orders-or shall he operate at 75% and be sure of keeping busy till March...
...Nazi air-raiders--12 or 14 Heinkels and Dorniers--struck in a bold attempt to bomb Britain's Rosyth naval base and the huge bridge over the Firth of Forth nine miles inland from Edinburgh...