Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rock. In Ketchikan, Alaska, Mrs. Fred West awoke suddenly from a sound sleep, found that a construction blast had dropped a huge boulder on the pillow next her head...
...G.O.P. small fry gulped with amazement when the word was passed down. Huge (6 ft. 2½in., 220 Ibs.), bear-like Russell Root's greatest claim to political fame was a vague resemblance to Wendell Willkie. In his 48 years he had never held a political job above ward committeeman until he was lifted into the Cook County G.O.P. chairmanship last spring. Even he admitted that last month's Republican sweep was due more to a vote against the "ins" than to his own ability...
Absurd as it is, the opera contains some of Mozart's most brilliant, buoyant, vocal music. But in the huge Metropolitan, the slight comedy was as close to lost as a puppet show in Madison Square Garden. One of the principals, Dezso Ernster, the Met's new basso, spoke and sang English with a Hungarian accent so thick he could not be understood. Most of the others went at Mozart's trifle like a man swinging at thistledown with a baseball bat. Somewhere along the line someone had forgotten that Mozart's little Singspiel...
...disarmament plans can hardly be attributed to a clever scheme for gaining arms supremacy. The second point is that Russia used generous amounts of mechanized equipment in the late struggle and is experimenting with atomic weapons today. It seems extremely unlikely that she will let outsiders convince her that huge masses of men are her finest weapon. Criticism of Soviet motives for disarmament are particularly futile at this time...
...Communists were staggered when returns from rural districts showed votes piling up for opposition candidates. At the last minute local Front bosses had to reshuffle the rural count and ring up huge city majorities to make possible the Government landslide. Bucharest, Rumania's Jersey City, turned in over 425,000 for the Government partymen, 70,000 for the opposition...