Word: monstrously
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...years ago, the U.S. was ahead of the U.S.S.R. in the art of MIRVing and could probably have obtained a moratorium in SALT I. But the Pentagon, eager to preserve a U.S. advantage, blocked the idea. The Soviets soon mastered the technology and began putting MIRVS on their own monstrous rockets...
While placing behind Trenton State, John Carroll College, Columbia and UMass, the Crimson performance was highlighted by the individual championship of sophomore heavyweight Jim Phills. He had to tangle with some monstrous grapplers over the weekend to come home with the crown, because the weight class has no upper limit...
...Equus gives meaning to his existence: "That boy has known a passion more ferocious than I have felt at any moment of my life...and I'm envious." Caught under Alan's spell, Dysart--who dreams of the Delphic oracle and eagles bearing prophecies--can think of nothing more monstrous than "taking away someone's worship." But, as a shrink, he is the self-proclaimed high priest of the God Normal. He must exorcise the boy's vital spirits, the phantasms of "insanity" that bring Alan a fulfillment that Normal, "the murderous God of Hell," can never understand, and therefore...
...reconcile the two sides of the feminine psyche. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, written when she was pregnant (an almost continuous state for her from ages 17 to 21), is put in the context of responding to Milton's Paradise Lost, dealing with his concept of the "Monstrous Eve" which Virginia Woolf (who pops up frequently in this text) called "Milton's Bogey...
...Cobb attributes the elegant sparseness of the Salk Institute to an unrelenting client who "challenged everything--squeezed out everything (in terms of form)--that was not necessary." He contrasts this economizing to Harvard's William James Hall, which looms outside his office window. William James, he says, is "a monstrous form" glazed over with an apparently arbitrary scheme of decoration. The building also fails to meet the conditions of its context: "It makes a horrible statement of the relationship of an institution to the people who are part of the community...