Word: monstering
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...monster is dead . . . the era of the lie is ended," proclaimed the leftist Combat. The Communist Humanité crowed: "A great victory." Pro-EDC critics charged bitterly that Mendès had allowed the 99 Communist votes to decide the fate of France. Mendès apologists insisted that had the debate continued to the bitter end, the anti-EDC majority would have swelled to about 115, enough to kill EDC even without Communist help...
...Adenauer too could state unpleasant alternatives: another setback to German hopes of sovereignty would lead disgusted Germans to reject Adenauer's misplaced faith in Western Europe. His government might fall. And with Der Alte gone, who would then control what Adenauer himself calls Germany's "domestic military monster...
...took six months to put together Perkins' first engine, a four-cylinder monster named "Vixen." Since Vixen had no self-starter, for the first test mechanics unbolted the combustion-chamber caps, ran to a nearby furnace, waited for the caps to get almost red-hot, then ran back to bolt them into place. Heat from the caps ignited the fuel in the chamber; after the engine fired and ran, the entire shop staff retired to a pub to celebrate...
Communist China, a "monster with feet of clay," would be an easy target in Rhee's military estimate. "It is hated by the masses. Although the Reds have murdered 15 million of their opponents, thousands of Free Chinese guerrillas are still fighting in the interior of China . . . Red China's army numbers 2,500,000, but its loyalty is not reliable, as was proved when 14,369 members of the Communist Chinese army captured in Korea chose to go to Formosa, and only 220 chose to return to Red China. The return of the Chinese main land would...
...streets were thronged with loud-shirted bookie types from Broadway, young intellectuals in need of haircuts, crew-cut Ivy Leaguers, sailors, Harlem girls with extravagant hairdos and high-school girls in shorts. They were cats. From as far away as Kansas they had come to hear a two-day monster jazz festival...