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Word: mammouth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doesn't matter whether the Celtics or the Blazers win. Bill Walton will still love every minute he's on the court. He'll break out in a mammouth grin every time Larry Bird completes an impossible pass or nails a 25-ft. jumper or each time Dennis Johnson makes a tenacious defensive play...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Bill Walton: Always A Winner | 12/6/1985 | See Source »

...that is where the documentary--and much current thinking about Vietnam--goes astray. The disastrous American intervention emerged not as an ill-advised adventure doomed from the start, but as a mammouth screw-up. It ended in failure not because America tried to suppress a civil war it could neither control nor understand, but because the military hierarchy malfunctioned and the civilians in command lacked the will power to force matters to a successful conclusion. If only we had not "fought with one hand tied behind our back," America would have won this war just...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The Trouble With Vietnam | 1/29/1982 | See Source »

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