Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chamber, the Attlee Government with its huge Labor majority had little to fear. The greater problems lay outside, and the debates would reflect them. Even as the session got under way, the Government had to rush troops home from the Continent to help unload food cargoes when 40,000 striking stevedores refused to work. Cried Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell, until lately an expert in parliamentary disorder: "I am a socialist, not an anarchist, and I want order and reason in our industrial relations...
...seems to be a feature of Hollywood contracts now that at least once a year every actor on the lot pitch in for a huge all-inclusive party, which is then passed on to an eager public as a star-studded extravaganza...
...rang last week with the din of intercollegiate battle. The House Naval Affairs Committee, under the watchful eye of billiard-bald Chairman Carl Vinson, sat, looked and listened. Tiny, ancient, impoverished St. John's College was defending its 160-year-old campus against the predatory onslaught of its huge wealthy neighbor, the U.S. Naval Academy...
...there was 21-year-old Irma Grese (who had worked in concentration camps since she was 17, and liked it). In the dock, she sat rigidly between Herta Ehlert and Use Lothe (see cut). When the prosecution showed a motion picture of a German guard slowly pushing a huge pile of rotting corpses into a pit with a bulldozer, Irma Grese calmly fixed her hair and blew her nose...
Convoyed by a small motorcade, Emperor Hirohito's car moved through the streets of Tokyo. At the gates of the U.S. Embassy, U.S. guards presented arms. Two U.S. officers escorted him to the huge, dark-paneled, cream-trimmed living room, where General MacArthur was waiting. MacArthur, who wore a ribbonless shirt open at the throat, shook hands and said, "Good morning...