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Catch-22
- Major Major grew despondent as he watched simple communications swell prodigiously into huge manuscripts.†
Chpt 9 *
- Yossarian reached out instinctively for balance and then launched himself forward in a prodigious dive that crushed the three combatants to the ground beneath him.†
Chpt 12
- The chaplain braced himself with a prodigious effort of the will and plunged ahead brazenly.†
Chpt 19
- Yossarian nodded perfunctorily, and the chaplain's breath quickened in anticipation as he made ready to join his will power with Yossarian's in a prodigious effort to rip away at last the voluminous black folds shrouding the eternal mysteries of existence.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(prodigious) enormous; or far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree