Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audiences with the dictator, was given a glimpse of Russia's huge arsenal of planes and tanks, found out that most Russian generals were warriors first and Communists second. He made up his mind that Russia, too, would hold. This was an opinion then scouted by virtually all U.S. military...
Then, like a volcano blowing off its top, the whole Russian line exploded in a huge arc of gunfire. Wily, broad-jawed Marshal Ivan Stepanovich Konev had touched off the greatest mass artillery shoot ever staged for a Russian attack...
...82nd Airborne delivered a massive blow at the German bulge northwest of Saint-Vith. The enemy reaction was instant and furious : the Yanks were rocked back by counterattacks with infantry and tanks. But U.S. troops took the blow, and shoved forward again. The weather cleared at last, and a huge swarm of Allied fighter bombers set out to smash the enemy columns on the roads. It was good hunting, though probably too late to inflict more than superficial wounds. Even when the Yanks cut the main highway between Houffalize and Saint-Vith, the Germans still had a net of secondary...
Caumsett Spitfire was dying of pneumonia. He had a 105.5° fever, a racking cough shook his 800-pound frame. Despite huge doses of sulfanilamide and an oxygen tent, he grew steadily weaker. Then Spitfire, a purebred Guernsey bull, achieved a measure of immortality-he became the first animal (outside a laboratory) to be treated with penicillin. WPB, which now has plentiful supplies for all serious cases, let his veterinarian have 2,500,000 units (normal human dose: 1,000,000 units). At week's end, the news from Hardwick, Mass. was better: after a few gigantic shots, Spitfire...
Harg, in this novel by Vardis Fisher, was one of several hundred squat, hairy, apelike men roaming the part of Europe that is now France. They were about 5 ft. 4 in. tall, and weighed about 200 Ibs.; they had huge heads, almost no necks, broad faces and pale brown eyes of metallic hardness. The women had a heavy thicket of black hair over back, chest and belly; a huge mane of hair hung from skull to waist...