Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment of impact, it seemed that the Sky Queen had been swallowed. People watching from two circling trans-'atlantic DC-45 saw her disappear completely in a great wash of white water. Then, miraculously, she reappeared "like a huge whale" and wallowed noisily toward the rolling Bibb...
...stone of murder spread like a huge wave. This outrage in retaliation for that one and that in retaliation for still another, and a new one in retaliation for the latest before it, and still a newer in retaliation for that, another set aflame by the stories of refugees and another still by pure rumor, and another in retaliation for that and still another by rumor. The genius of India has ever been for myth, not rationality: and no man's reason may be expected to remain intact under the intricate chemistries of horror, heartbreak, revenge, the vertiginous contagion...
...women and children and bullocks and groaning carts were plodding eastward and westward beneath the autumn skies and nights of the cloven Punjab; past unharvested fields, past empty villages and eviscerated villages and villages which resemble rained-out brush fires. Huge, forlorn concentrations of Sikhs and Hindus labored forward to leave the West Punjab forever. On one day last week, columns No. 8 and 9 moved across the famous Balloki headworks between Amritsar and Lahore and passed into the Indian Dominion; not far behind, foot columns No. 10, 11 and 12 lumbered steadfastly eastward. Carefully feeling its way around Amritsar...
Gallerygoers who tried to deduce Yeats's personality from his work might imagine him as an angry, half-blind, stammeringly intense young giant, paint-spattered from head to foot. Murky smears sparked with gobs and drippings of candy-bright color, his huge, swirling landscapes, seascapes and reeling street scenes all look as if they are on fire and half burnt-out already. The panting energy in Yeats's art, and his violent disregard for nature, are impressive and repulsive as well. They are not easy to connect with the wistful-eyed, closemouthed little Dubliner he really...
...wheat dragged up the cost of many another food. President Truman last week had again tried to put all the blame on his favorite whipping boy: the grain speculators or gamblers, as he termed them (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The idea that the Government's huge exports of wheat had caused the market's rise was misinformation, said he. The U.S., he added, had always exported a third or more of its crop, and present purchases were not out of line...