Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington last week, told of a typical moment at one of those fabulous 25-toast sessions: "One of the officials seized a big china plate that was on the table. He said: 'When we Russians like somebody, we break a plate-like this.' And he raised his huge fist and crashed it down on the plate, smashing it to pieces...
...factory's pride is a huge 500-ton hydraulic press, bought in the U.S. before the war, removed from its first site and reassembled in midwinter in a roofless, windowless shed...
...Phase of the war had begun auspiciously. West of Kiev, mobile Soviet columns spread out for 45 miles like the tentacles of a huge octopus, seizing vast booty, disorganizing German resistance. Moscow's Pravda quoted Nazi prisoners: "The swiftness of events defies description...
...airfields at Tricque-ville and St. André-de-1'Eure. This sucked fighters away from the Lowlands in time for 550 Fortresses and Liberators-the largest U.S. heavy bomber force ever used-to cut for Wilhelm shaven with upwards of 1,200 tons of bombs. With that huge force were U.S. fighter types which made the escort possible-450 Thunderbolts and long-range Lightnings, all carrying belly tanks. As this mass attack returned and German fighters settled again on Lowlands fields, Marauders hit them there-at Schiphol near Amsterdam...
...solid miles of praise. He believed that if you ignored the fickle crowd's catcalls you should also ignore its plaudits, and as a commander in Spain he had had to ignore its criticisms. Not many years later he was the most unpopular man in England. Once a huge mob stormed his mansion and smashed every window while the Duke sat inside beside the dead body of his wife. Once he made his way home from the Tower of London through howling crowds. He remained almost as expressionless through five miles of hostility as he had been through...