Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After only two days' debate, the House voted 271-1 for the huge bill. The one dissenting vote was cast by Manhattan's hot-eyed Representative Vito Marcantonio, who talks a lot about U.S. aggression and not at all of Russian aggression...
...years ago, in the name of all humanity, the victors of World War II put the leaders of the vanquished on trial. In over 50 million words of testimony, the Niirnberg mill ground out the story of six million Jews murdered, millions of laborers held in near-slavery. So huge were the figures that the world could scarcely grasp them. Though Hermann Göring postured in the dock and Rudolf Hess bellowed his insane laughter, interest in the courtroom scene flagged. But last week, crowds once more flocked to the big red-roofed Palace of Justice. The 13th...
...everything," boasts the black-haired little bartender. "What have you got?" To the client complaining of ulcers, he says: "Muy bien, señor. For you, pisco from a bottle of turnip. That'll be 1½ soles [11?]." In a huge green bottle beside the ulcer cure soaks a banana. "Sĩ señor, bananas. They are to cure dandruff. The pisco sits for a month, absorbing the dandruff-eliminating elements and the hair-restoring elements right out of the banana. That's camomile steeping in the next bottle. Cures malaria. If you want...
...moas were not alone in their death agony. A giant woodhen (Aptornis) and a goose (Cnemiornis), half again as big as a barnyard goose, were also bogged down. Nor was the slime their only foe. As they struggled, huge eagles (Harpagornis) swooped down and tried to pick some meat from the enveloping "aspic." Some of the eagles became mired too, and left their remains (bigger than the great monkey-eating eagle of the Philippines) in Pyramid Valley's death trap...
...alone, most readers will probably conclude that he was guilty as charged by church and state. But thousands of prohibitionists were ready to accept the denials of the man who had done so much to whip the saloon. Cannon's favorite tactic was to sue his detractors for huge amounts in libel suits that he tried to settle for small amounts out of court. In his day he sued a Congressman for $500,000 and William Randolph Hearst for a total of $7,500,000. He lost the one, settled the Hearst suits out of court, also lost...