Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proclaimed last July. The Sino-Soviet Friendship Association was the apparatus the Communists set up to get Chinese to lean-toward the U.S.S.R., of course. Association branches have mushroomed in every sizable Communist-held city. Shanghai's got under way last week. On a public platform adorned with huge posters of Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh, Shanghai's Communist leaders echoed the word: "We want to lean to one side...
...early youth, precocious, Munich-born Richard Strauss had written under the influence of Mozart and Brahms. But after about 1885, Strauss's contemporaries called his work "psychopathic music." They railed against the brazen dissonances in his huge, Wagnerian tone poems (Don Quixote, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Death and Transfiguration, etc.), the savage horrors of his operas Salome and Elektra, his general lack of taste in composition. But no one could overlook his genius: his unique gifts as an orchestrator, his penetrating power for illuminating character and for describing anything from the zany antics of Don Quixote to the bestiality...
...most likely to become baseball's rookie of the year is a huge (6 ft. 4 in.) pitcher named Don Newcombe. He weighs 235 lbs. and throws baseballs so hard that to batters they look like aspirin tablets coming toward the plate. Around the National League, players agree that the hulking giant in a Brooklyn Dodger uniform is the best right-hander in the business...
...other hand, the huge U.S. oil industry, which had thought last spring that the boom was over, changed its mind. The vast production of new cars, diesel engines, oil heaters, etc. had swelled oil demand so much that the U.S. Bureau of Mines forecast greater demand this year than last. The bright outlook caused oil shares to pace the recent stock market upswing. The market got a new lift this week from the prospect of a settlement of the steel wage dispute (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the first day's trading, steel shares gained as much as a point...
...Stage. Flanked on either side by huge towers of brickwork that once formed the walls of the calidarium, Caracalla's is one of the world's biggest opera stages: more than a third of an acre. To keep it from looking empty, the Rome Opera summons a mob of supers that even Hollywood would admit was colossal. Ten horses, three elephants and a camel usually turn up onstage for Aida. In this season's Lohengrin, 700 performers (and Benito Mussolini's favorite white horse) were onstage at once...