Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week Berlin radio jittered with its strongest superlatives. "One of the war's bloodiest struggles," "mammoth offensive," "grand assault," "unheard-of numerical superiority," "monstrous force...
...train, Dewey had a minimum of advisers: Speechwriter Elliott Bell, one-time New York Timesman; Secretary Paul Lockwood, an associate from his D.A. days; Press Secretary Jim Hagerty. Tall, lean Hamilton Gaddis, patronage dispenser of the Dewey Albany administration, preceded the train as advance agent. Behind the lines, a mammoth research bureau, occupying the top floor of Albany's De Witt Clinton Hotel, steadily went on digging up facts & figures...
Frank ("The Voice") Sinatra, patent-leather-lunged idol, opened a three-week engagement at Manhattan's mammoth Paramount Theater, got the usual screaming reception from 30,000 bow-tied, bobby-soxed fans, who caused such a commotion that the Police Department responded with 421 policemen, 20 policewomen, 20 patrol cars, two trucks. The excitement had scarcely died down two days later, when an 18-year-old boy stood up in the theater, threw an egg that smacke'd Sinatra squarely between the eyes. The egger, one Alexander Ivanovich Dorogokupetz, was mobbed by Sinatra's fans but rescued...
...being invaded by the British press. First was a weekly digest of articles in Lord Rothermere's Tory Daily Mail, which likes to needle Americans; next came an India-paper edition of the government-blessed London Times, distributed free to 250 Americans; after that, Lord Beaverbrook's mammoth Daily Express began sending over a full-sized, newsprint daily; last week, the first copies of an India-paper edition of Lord Camrose's conservative Daily Telegraph & Morning Post breezed...
Must the U.S., to stay at peace, have a mammoth standing army...