Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symbol of British rule stands on a hill overlooking the city and lifts a copper dome 177 feet against the hot Indian skies. Under the dome a huge crystal chandelier lights a marble throne room bounded by ten-foot torches and yellow marble columns. The surrounding building is a mammoth jewel cabinet of teak and rosewood and gold. Sir Stafford would find ample and luxurious space for meditation in one of its 54 bedrooms...
Czecho-Slovakia. At Bratislava, 40 miles east of Vienna, Hitler would see workmen feverishly camouflaging the mammoth dynamite factory so that its colors would blend with those of the freshly plowed Slovak and Hungarian fields. Authorities feared that the R.A.F. might try to repeat its Paris success in Czechoslovakia. In the newspapers Hitler would read about the desperate drive to increase armament production (in some factories it was down to 20% of capacity), but he would know that longer hours might mean more fuseless bombs, more faulty aircraft...
...Lafayette lay on her side like a dead whale, belly exposed, in the dirty ice mush of her slip in the Hudson River. Snow fell gently on the mammoth, fire-scarred hulk. Thousands of New Yorkers trooped to the waterfront to stare at her. She was a heartbreaking sight...
...From "Fellow Alumni of Mammoth College," by John R. Tunis '11 from the book "This Writing Game...
...mammoth victory for tall, young Edward H. Miller, chief attorney for the U.S. Justice Department, who switched his own smoke to a 15? brand of cigarets called Charing Cross before the trial. His description of how the $1,000,000,000 U.S. cigaret industry operates-the most complete description yet on record-will stand unless the inevitable appeal reverses...