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What does this monstrous five-year-old do with its flooding billions? Does it spend them wisely and honestly? How efficient are its plants? How good are its newest bombs? How alive are its fabulous secret laboratories, on which the future safety of the U.S. largely depends...
...four powerful, gliding strides that left his pursuers flatfooted, Maurice ("The Rocket") Richard was off and skating at top speed, skimming down the ice toward the Detroit goal. To Richard, the Red Wing goalie was more than an opponent. He was a bitter enemy, a monstrous mass of protective padding designed to stop what Richard enjoys doing most: scoring goals. Detroit Goalie Terry Sawchuck, with a last-ditch deflection, stopped the Rocket's shot, but in ten seasons of National Hockey League play, few goalies have been able to stop the Montreal Canadiens' Richard for long. In Canada...
...Monstrous Mistake (Cont...
...freshmen who discover that they don't really need much in the way of financial aid are indicative of a common type around the College Some men always turn up with terribly low estimated resources and ridiculously high estimated expenses. The result is a simply monstrous gap for the FAC to fill up. For a man like this, Monro remarks, "if he wants to spend that much it's okay, but he's not going to get it from...
Vadis is a triumph of money over matter, a monument to Hollywood's faith in the formula that nothing succeeds like excess. Petronius speaks for Quo Vadis when, discussing the emperor's monstrous arson, he tells Nero: "History need not say that the burning of Rome was good, but it must say that it was colossal...