Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twin Perils. In the north, Armenian General Ivan Bagramian was hacking away methodically at the Vitebsk-Mogilev line (see map, p, 27). The great German stronghold of Vitebsk was engulfed. Orsha was in danger. And at any hour, the four huge Red Armies idling in the north might roll west, crush the thinly spread forces of Field Marshals von Kluge" and von Küchler, pour into old Poland, the Baltic States...
...most remarkable events since the Flood took place on New Year's Eve in some 50 U.S. cinegogues. On a screen wispy with angelic clouds, a clinching pair of lovers receded to a vanishing point and were replaced by a speck which grew & grew into the huge image of a gaunt, sad-eyed, solitary young man. His posture suggested St. Francis preaching to the birds, and the hysterical twittering of the audience sustained the illusion. The young man was, in fact, in his own peculiar way, delivering a benediction. He was singing, rather hoarsely and with incredible effectiveness...
When she came to her first meal with her husband's family, and found the lower floors of the great house lit with candles that they could not afford, and the huge chandelier in the center hall twinkling with a starry brilliance as it was lighted in her honor, she trembled at their pride in her. When she found the Negroes welcoming the bride and groom with incomprehensible outcries of good nature, and her husabcand's kinfolk, wistful and old, treasuring her as if she were some lovely, fragile, enameled doll, she moved into a world of enchantment...
...Paul's Cathedral, twice hit-once in the choir, once in the north transept. One photograph shows the yawning hole in the transept floor, a huge puncture made not by the bomb itself but by the weight of wreckage which fell after...
When the snow melted on the street they took their sleds into the huge house-it had a frontage of 100 feet on Lexington Avenue and no on 22nd Street-and slid down the carpet on the stairs. They crashed right through the front door, nearly killed themselves and their mother. who was coming up the steps. She made them stay indoors all day. The family had a gymnasium, fitted up for the boys over the stable, hired an instructor to teach them gymnastics. The little Hewitts cut trap doors through the floor of their gymnasium to make a secret...