Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scrutiny of parents and trustees and anyone who may be interested . . . That is why it is so impor tant for you to weigh with scrupulous care the testimony concerning secret schools, false names, devious ways, general falsification and so on, all alleged to be in the setting of a huge and well-disciplined organization, spreading to practically every state of the union and all the principal cities and industries...
...Chinese diplomatic missions in Europe, Red China's suave Foreign Minister Chou En-lai had sent a circular urging them to switch their allegiance from the Nationalist to the Communist government before it was "too late." In the huge, yellowing embassy on the dignified Avenue George V in Paris, there was warm discussion over the teacups: Ambassador Tsien Tai favored accepting the Communist invitation...
Later at a firing-range observation post he watched heavily burdened paratroopers -850 in all-come tumbling out of the sky. Tons of ammunition and equipment hit the ground as they assembled and opened fire. In the neatest trick of the day, four C-82s dropped four huge 105 mm. howitzers and four towing jeeps. All but one gun floated safely down under billowing, 100 ft. cargo chutes, and the cannon were firing within twelve minutes after delivery...
...fellow Spaniard Picasso, but its loony, mountainous melee of animals and things was Dominguez' own, a jumble of the sort one sees at the moment of going to sleep or awakening, transformed and made monumental by the order and clarity of the painter's arrangement. A huge, expansive man whose rolling eyes and fierce mustache make him look like the villain in a melodrama, Dominguez may well become a new hero in French...
...forging his chain of 15 hotels, big, bounding Conrad N. Hilton, 62, bought such landmarks as Chicago's huge (2,700 rooms) Stevens, Manhattan's dignified old Plaza, and Los Angeles' flashy Town House. But Connie Hilton still wasn't satisfied. He wanted to own Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria...