Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choice vocabulary, a wartime course on the intricacies of slit-trench excavation bears little fruit for the veteran studying English at Harvard. College men bowed gracefully to military instruction and promptly forgot it. But now, as civilian students, ex-G.I.'s find that wartime studies loom huge on their credit sheets with decimal figures that pare college time to the bone. The Dean's office must step high to escape the hoard of snapping students with unwanted, but usually irrevocable service credits...
...late at night, writing letters that follow his favorites-to imperial outposts, to careers in politics and science. When they come back for a visit, he insists on snapping their pictures and putting the pictures in his already cluttered study. His dinners, embellished with gleaming silver from three huge chests and the best of wines, are famous. Over such a dinner, paunchy W.T.S. Stallybrass, with a puff on his filter-tip cigaret, likes to repeat the words of one of his predecessors: "It's a good thing to keep all old traditions-especially the bad ones...
Giant China is squeezed in a double Communist encirclement-from without and from within. Inside the country, Chinese Communists push for power. From without, unremitting pressure is applied to the frontier provinces. Last week, this pressure was squeezing hard on a huge, little-known segment of China-mineral-and oil-rich Sinkiang Province...
...open-air Hearst Greek Theater at Berkeley, Calif, one day last week, 8,000 new students sat waiting. As the warm sun beat down on them, the band blared out Hail to California. A huge, hearty figure strode on stage. The yell leader called for a "Six." The big man stood listening to the cheer with a big smile. Then he called for another chorus of Hail to California; he helped out with his bathtub baritone. Then silence fell. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the nation's largest university (41,451 full-time students), began to speak. As everybody...
...didn't find roast beef on your tray yesterday, don't talk about high prices, don't mumble about the lack of meat, but take your troubles to a subterranean chamber under Eliot House where Miss Frances Hinckley, beside two huge ovens, plots College menus three weeks in advance...