Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attentive throngs of Witnesses turned out faithfully for lecture after lecture in mammoth Municipal Stadium. From a platform in the infield, speakers hurled Biblical fireballs into the packed stands. The joyous climax of the Glad Assembly came on Universal Peace Day. There Watch Tower President Nathan H. Knorr, successor to the late, mellifluous "Judge" J. F. Rutherford, denounced most human institutions, especially the United Nations. Cried he: "Display outright fearlessness of this world conspiracy. . . . God's vengeance is speedily coming against all conspirators...
...total, concludes Author Bullitt, would be a world organization named the "Defense League of Democratic States." But in its infancy, the power of such a League would rest primarily on two U.S. means of forceful persuasion - a mammoth air force and a soaring stockpile of atomic bombs...
...personal history flavored with the dash of foreign engineering ventures. Trained as an engineer ('02), Durant received his degree and spent the next year in private enterprise. Between 1911 and '30, Durant was intermittently occupied with the construction of harbor works in Cuba, bridges in Paraguay and the mammoth International Telegram and Telephone exchange in Madrid. In 1934 he left a post as supervisor of public works for the State of New York to accept a surprise offer as Business Manager of Harvard, a post created...
...Cole Porter; produced by Mr. Welles) is Orson Welles with his foot on the loud pedal-which is roughly the equivalent of a lunatic asylum at the height of an electrical storm. Producer-Adapter-Actor-Magician Welles has blown up Jules Verne's famous yarn into a mammoth burlesque whose 34 scenes spill over the stage into the aisles and, when that won't do, resort to movie shots...
...company of 235 men were landed on Peleliu one dawn; forty-eight hours later, only 78 of them were alive. Most of an entire platoon of his, racing to the assault, had suddenly felt the ground collapse under them, and had found themselves wallowing at the bottom of a mammoth tank-trap, while Jap machine-gunners literally ripped them apart. The other rifle platoons stormed their way onto a nearby point of the island-and found themselves cut off. When, at last, relief came and Captain Hunt and his handful of men staggered back to the beach, they had withstood...