Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walks, through formal gardens, under Chinese scholar trees, across arched bridges over the carp pond. Promptly at 10:30 a.m. they filed into the pink brick Georgian mansion, past the Byzantine and mediaeval objets d'art, into the high-ceilinged music room. There they arranged themselves around a huge U-shaped table covered with the inevitable blotter pads...
...captured from all sides." Last week Marshal Rokossovsky's army group gained ground north of the city, in attacks toward the Warsaw-Bialystok railroad. Some 100 miles to the south, in sweltering hot weather, Marshal Konev fought off repeated German tank and infantry attacks, developed a huge salient across the Vistula, from which a northward drive toward Warsaw might roll up the Germans on the west bank...
Biggest Crematorium. "In the center of the camp stands a huge stone building with a factory chimney-the world's biggest crematorium. The Germans attempted to burn it but most of it still stands-a grim monument to the Third Reich...
...Paul Bunyan, who used to fish the Snake River regularly, tied the shore-end of his sturgeon line to Babe, his vast blue ox, one hot day when sport was slow. Babe, nipped by a horsefly at the moment a sturgeon took the bait, twitched so violently that the huge fish was sent sailing all the way to Payette Lake. A jerk like that could well have given the creature a curvature of the spine (Slimy Slim is a three-hump serpent). And then Slim developed his periscope neck by nostalgically trying to peer back over the hills toward...
...Sinek is the son of an Attica, Ohio slaughterhouse operator. When he was 13, Bill Sinek went into the construction business with $1,000 he had saved while cherry picking and newspaper peddling. At 19 he was making $6,000 a year and 30 years later had built such huge projects as Chicago's Soldier Field, Lincoln Fields Race Track, the Cubs baseball park...