Word: monstering
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...apparently a monster drive at the two flanks of Moscow. It had its beginnings at points about 200 miles southwest and northwest of the capital. It developed slowly, beginning with heavy bombings of communications (see map), continuing with the usual mechanized thrusts and infantry attacks...
...adjunct to the book. Lee on agents: "In the four years they've handled me they haven't gotten me so much as an Elks' smoker. NOT ONE DATE! I don't want to know from agents." On men: "I like my men on the monster side. A snarling mouth, evil eye, broken nose . . . thick ears. ... A nervous tic excites me and if with all these things he wore green suits-BANK NIGHT!" On her career: "I've been held over for another week. Broke all records, they tell me. (As if I didn...
...near midnight, sultry and sullen, when the Weather Bureau discovered a hurricane blowing up in the Gulf of Mexico. Somewhere near the coast of Yucatan, 540 miles south-southeast of New Orleans, it hovered above the tropical water like some unearthly monster about to heave itself into the sea. Its center, three miles across, moved at 17 m.p.h., while around its periphery in a vast, pumping circle the winds raced counterclockwise at 100 m.p.h. or more. Reaching out 150 miles on either side of its "eye," it moved for three days over the Gulf as if feinting for an opening...
...southwest, a rutted road winds through a field of rye, decayed in the autumn rain. There, like monster footprints, are the holes dug by the Russian shells that followed the retreating Germans, blasting hurriedly laid coils of barbed wire, ferreting out artillery positions, mangling innumerable machines...
...night, as the sky glowed red with fire, the Russians gave a monster party near the jetty. Singing Russian songs, dancing to the music of balalaikas and accordions, Canadians, Norwegians and Russians fraternized. As the dim white midnight brightened into dim white dawn, the Russians picked up their belongings and went aboard the ship allotted to them. The British and Norwegians boarded their vessel. Slowly they steamed down the fjord...