Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meeting in the Center. Along the Black Sea flank of the funnel raced General Fedor Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army. A huge breach opened in the Nazi lines. A column sickled westward into the funnel's center, joined troops of Malinovsky's army. Kishinev, pogrom-haunted seat of Bessarabia, was stormed. Below the city the Russians closed a noose around 60,000 Germans. Then the Third Ukrainian sped down the coast. At week's end it stood deep within the sprawling, muddy Danube Delta, held the old Turkish fortress town of Ismail, swept into Galati, eastern...
...bound for a plywood mill. Logs are rotated against a huge blade which peels them into long, thin sheets of wood...
...Dillon, of the Indoor Athletic Building. Starting at the Indoor Athletic Building, for example, the discarded towel is tied in a bundle of 25 and taken down to Dillon, where the transformation begins. the first step in the laundering process is the giant washing machine. Holding 200 towels, this huge cylinder combines 180 degrees of live steam with plenty of soapsuds to completely cleanse and sterilize anything with which it comes in contact...
North of Le Mans a long line of U.S. tanks thundered to battle. Few tankmen turned to look at a huge block of dark granite in a level field which had been fought over a few days before. The granite showed shell gouges and bullet nicks, but unmarred was its inscription: Wilbur et Orville Wright, Kittyhawk...
...Negro children from Manhattan to spend a fortnight's holiday in homes of white Vermont families (TIME, July 24). He had also received over 100 letters about it from interested strangers. One correspondent in nine disapproved, but the Vermonters and their visitors agreed that the experiment was a huge success...