Word: grace
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GRACE HUTCHINSON BALMOS Montclair...
Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi, 72, is a left-minded politician serving a seven-year term of office in the ornate, mirrored Quirinale Palace, which he considers a gilded cage. Playing host to the beauteous Grace Kelly and her husband, the Prince of Monaco, as he did fortnight ago, comes under the heading of work; Gronchi longs to play a more vital role in world politics...
Accordingly, with the five-year lead erased, the CRIMSON is obliged to assume this final honor. Having permitted the News several months of grace in which to withdraw the title from her front page, the new "OCD" has been obliged to adopt it outright...
...rules far more effective at the turn of the century when the railroads were the only efficient means of transportation--the management must work under severe limitations. The ICC must approve changes in fares or in service; many a money-losing branch line still exists only through the grace of the Commission. And although the Transportation Act of 1958 supposedly gave the railroads a greater degree of freedom, the government still exercises a degree of control unparalleled in any other major industry...
...nevertheless always remembered and created emotion." But to Professor Fenton it represented even more than that: "To the literary historian J.B. is a fruitful document, reminding us by its vibrancy and courage of the achievement of American literature in the past half-century ... of the zest and grace with which MacLeish's literary generation has performed...