Word: monstering
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...sound) wave builds up, reverberates back & forth as if the channel were a tiny organ pipe. When the wheel is revolving at proper speed, the wave snaps back just in time to find the end of the channel uncovered. It pops out into the open, carrying with it a monster pulse of sound energy...
...play what it sorely needs and seldom gets - a wonderfully high-styled production. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde tossed rubbishy"realistic" plots out the window to indulge his taste - and his talent - for nonsense. With its baby found in a handbag, its imperious dowager who is "a monster without being a myth," its one young man who invents a dissolute brother and its other young man who blithely proceeds to impersonate him, Earnest is often farce at its most absurd...
...acre site on Long Island which used to be Camp Upton, a vast World War II reception center, is now mostly a collection of slatternly abandoned barracks. But its flatlands have a new destiny: on them will grow a monster of the atomic age-a workshop for the strange, powerful, ominous machines of modern nuclear physics...
That Trotsky Again. Millions of Frenchmen scented violence in the bitter wind. Socialist Premier Ramadier spent hours in his office neither reading nor writing?just tugging at his beard and staring out of the window. His biggest scare came when the rightist Parti Republicain de la Liberte scheduled a monster mass meeting at the Salle Wagram. Communists promptly called a meeting at the same place. Ramadier mobilized 25,000 police and soldiers, forced both parties to call off their demonstrations...
...Picard was wrong, that all makeready and walking time on company property had to be paid for. Suddenly, the genie of portal-to-portal pay hovered, mountain high, not only over small Mt. Clemens Pottery, but over all industry. The oracular Court gave a hint, however, on how the monster might be lured back into the bottle. Under the legal doctrine of de minimis ("the law does not concern itself with trifles"), all small amounts of makeready time were to be disregarded. With that, the Court handed the case back to Judge Picard...