Word: monstrously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Laid up since his heart attack last September, Herblock returned to duty, and with his first cartoon-a slashing assault on Nixon-set the style for the liberal Democrats' 1960 campaign (see cut). By an irony of timing, the caricature of Nixon as a monstrous male witch (in the past, Herblock has shown him as a sewer rat, a fanged beast and a gutter habitue) ran in the New York Post the same day that Nixon was receiving widespread praise elsewhere for his part in settling the steel strike...
...conscience-pricked judge advocate keeps suggesting that Wirz had a moral obligation to disobey such monstrous military orders-a ticklish thesis to propound before a military court. But after Wirz insists on taking the stand, the judge advocate wrests permission to raise the moral issue. The trial thereupon erupts into something beyond cross-examination or even debate. It becomes an indictment, on the judge advocate's part, that bypasses the law, and a hysterical mine-not-to-reason-why defense on Wirz's part that circumvents morality. Wirz, most likely a preordained scapegoat, was convicted and hanged...
...whale in question was no Moby Dick (a monstrous albino sperm whale) but a finback measuring 44 ft. 2 in. and weighing an estimated 50 tons. It was no Moby Dick by temperament either: far from eluding pursuit, it seemed to seek out Dr. White. No fewer than five times it ran itself aground at Provincetown, virtually on Dr. White's Boston doorstep (though he was in Washington). Four times the U.S. Coast Guard hitched a 3-in. hawser to it and towed it out to sea, only to have it snap the line and return with a derisive...
Fighting growing Red influence, the moderates had been meeting every Thursday with Castro for skull sessions warning that his monstrous agrarian reform was devouring the Cuban economy. A few weeks ago, Pazos, Ray and Perez found that they were being followed by Castro's secret police and guessed that the game was lost. Only López Fresquet survived the shakeup, and he had already asked to be allowed to resign next month. To replace Ray, Castro for the first time named an open Communist, Osmani Cienfuegos, brother of missing Army Chief Camilo Cienfuegos, who only a few weeks...
...dogging. The pursuit of a ball carrier by a monstrous linebacker. See SPORT, "A Man's Game...