Word: monstrously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black male role models, the special treatment of celebrities by police, the danger women face from the men who profess to love them. But by the end of the week, with the last astounding twists to the case, it seemed that there were no larger meanings -- just a howling, monstrous tragedy...
...world" is a rich piece of history now -- camp broken, tears, embraces and bugle calls fading into other memories. Those tens of thousands of veterans who went one more time to Normandy to hear the thunderous echoes from the hours that shaped their souls and mortally wounded Hitler's monstrous evil are home or headed there to confront age and infirmity, and ultimately to yield to the death they evaded on June...
...acting as a renegade Crimson Key guide my hometown, dragging friends and strangers from one neighborhood to the next, spouting historical facts and personal anecdotes the whole way. If half of Harvard hasn't heared at least one story about one of my crazy high school priests, or one monstrous tale from Castle Island, then I've failed...
Bernstein possessed a monstrous ego -- in his last concerts, all heaven gazing and fanny waggling, he parodied the suffering artist -- and a biographer could hardly ask for a better subject. The son of a wig manufacturer, Bernstein went to Harvard and made a dazzling debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 25; he conquered Broadway with West Side Story and then endured the musical catastrophes of Mass and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; he abandoned his long-suffering wife Felicia and spent his last years as the chain-smoking, emphysema-racked Yoda of the Dakota apartment building in New York City...
Humboldt is a region of hardscrabble logging towns along Highway 101 on the foggy coast of northern California. Here it is still possible to see a big truck grinding toward the Pacific Lumber mill at Scotia with a single, monstrous redwood log, 15 ft. in diameter. A tree that can produce logs this size is worth upwards...