Word: monstrously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard returns from the Bay Area following its monstrous upset of top-seeded Stanford in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Although Harvard was eliminated Monday night in an 82-64 loss to ninth-seeded Arkansas, the fans were excited about the team's history-making victory on Saturday, when Harvard became the first 16 seed ever to win a game in the Tournament...
...rose through the grating of a gutter to make himself absolute master of most of Europe and to change the history of the world more decisively than any other 20th century man but Lenin. Seldom in human history, never in modern times, had a man so insignificantly monstrous become the absolute head of a great nation. It was impossible to dismiss him as a mountebank, a paper hanger. The suffering and desolation that he wrought was beyond human power or fortitude to compute. The ruin in terms of human lives was forever incalculable. It had required a coalition...
...gentle demurrer to your repeated use of the adjective "dwarfish" in describing my person. Although I actually stand five feet four inches in socks, I have never objected to being ribbed about my size. Your pet word, however, strikes me as inappropriate as it carries a connotation of the monstrous and stunted. Let me suggest that such phrases as "smallish," "minute," "miniature" and even "pocket-size" Billy Rose would be considerably more appetizing. Of course, if your mind is made up, I assure you that I would rather be labeled "dwarfish" than not be mentioned in your splendid magazine...
...produced. There is, however, a very strange drawing of some person or other also on the cover, which is very puzzling to me. Could you possibly have substituted, in error, next week's cover picture in place of mine? I consider this figure you have attached to my name monstrous in appearance, bearing no resemblance to my likeness, which appears on the inside in the body of my story--the one in which I am attired in my Ascot suit, the one I wore when I played the lead in My Fair Lady. Therefore, this is to notify you that...
...SUNDAY Women's hockey will make its debut. And the man to watch will be Austrian Alpine skier Hermann ("Monster") Maier, who has had eight monstrous wins this season...