Word: staggering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theme of Frogner Park is nothing less than the birth, life and death of man. There are no monumental mementos of captains, kings and conquerors in the Vigeland cast of characters-just plain men, women & children. Massive males stagger under the weight of a heavy fountain-bowl; chubby children sport in & out of stone tree branches. A bridge over a pool bears 58 bronze figures of rugged toilers. At one corner of the bridge is a 20-ft. dragon clutching a reluctant woman whose bowed face, closely examined, reveals smiling pleasure. Topping the park is a 56-ft. white granite...
Measure of Failure. In destruction aground these were totals to stagger even an air enthusiast's imagination of air power on the make. But they were also a measure of the power Rundstedt had thrown into the offensive, of the reserves he had massed to keep his drive going. The German power, assembled under the handicap of air inferiority, was also a measure of the failure by the Allied command and by Vandenberg's Ninth (the biggest air force on the Continent) to use air tactics to prevent such an offensive...
...hour the survivors hugged the ground, not daring to look around. Gradually the German tanks rumbled off, and when a furtive glance showed only one left, every American who could run or stagger made for the woods near by. Fewer than a score reached Allied positions...
...book will stagger most readers. It is not only bulky but sexy, and both to excess. A 971-page exploitation of the bawdiest phases of the bawdy Restoration, it weighs two pounds even. And every ounce sizzles-with seductions, abortions, childbirths, miscarriages, bedroom raptures. Its characters wallow in pox, perversion, impotence, pregnancy. Historical events like the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London are swept away in its undertow...
...politics consists in making the necessary possible. Monarchy is quite indispensable to France. A state like France cannot afford the luxury of a republic, for then all the country's resources are squandered for a party-whichever party happens to be in power. France can stagger along for a while, as a beggar, but she cannot continue as a great nation that way. ... So long as I have a tongue to speak and a hand to write, I shall go on repeating what I have said for 50 years. We are not bestial enough to abandon the truth...