Crossword-Solution: WHOPPING 8 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Last year I had to give her a whopping raise while the rest of us had to settle for the usual 3%, and Ted at the Affirmative Action Office says we've got to give her more again this year and then still more until she catches up to or surpasses Fred's paycheck.

The ice was mighty clear ice, and you could see almost through it, and right inside of it, not more than three feet above the waterline, and about two feet, or maybe twenty inches, inside the ice, was a whopping big shark, about fourteen feet long,--a regular man-eater,--frozen in there hard and fast.

The other sailors of the crew They always calls her ‘Whopping Sue!’” “Oho!” the Captain said, “I see! And is she then so very strong?” “She’d take your honour’s scruff,” said he “And pitch you over to Bolong!” “I pardon you,” the Captain said, “The fair BABETTE you needn’t wed.” Perhaps the Customs had his will, And coaxed the scornful girl to wed, Perhaps the Captain and his BILL, And WILLIAM’S little wife are dead; Or p’raps they’re all alive and well: I cannot, cannot, cannot tell.

Russia's Accounting Board disclosed that a whopping 12 percent of the money earmarked to fight the war two years ago has vanished without a trace.

Housing starts for the fourth quarter of 1982 were up 45 percent from a year ago, and housing permits, a sure indicator of future growth, were up a whopping 60 percent.