Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times's Harold Callender added: ". . . The French know we are not going to deal with Vichy, but also we are not disposed to deal with General de Gaulle. . . . We shall liberate France-but after that what? Over the political aspects of our policy hangs a huge question mark...
...Toll for the attackers was 27 bombers and six fighters, but 61 Nazi planes were shot down. And at week's end a fleet of more than 1,000 R.A.F. bombers fought a grueling battle with flak and night-fighters over Berlin, paying with 73 bombers for the huge fires left spreading in the doomed Nazi capital...
...week's end the Germans held about one-quarter of the town, including a belt of ruined houses under the hill behind. Besides their guns on Hill 165, they had strong artillery positions along the base of Mt. Cassino. As the battle thundered through the desolate streets, huge 240-mm. (9 in.) U.S. guns added their voices to the siege...
...Ginger comes downstairs into a huge closeup, the picture ends...
Anton Bruckner was born in the Austrian Tyrol in 1824, three years before the death of Beethoven. A great, hulking, oafish man with a huge beaked nose and the manners of a country bumpkin, he wandered about the streets of 19th-Century Vienna pathetically anxious to find anybody who liked his long, earnest, rather complicated symphonies. Practically nobody did. His contemporary, Johannes Brahms, hooted: "Bruckner's works immortal? It makes me laugh." Richard Wagner, whom Bruckner admired tremendously, considered him a bonehead and avoided his company. Few of his important works were published until the last years...