Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scratch, the former looking like a sand-kicked 97-lb. weakling in Rosemary's Baby and the latter as a watered-down Holden Caulfield in The Graduate, is enough to confirm to this aging mind that when eccentricity and grotesquerie become the prime movers of modern society and grace the cover of society's most powerful conscience, the Flat Earth Society might have something...
...routes to the Mediterranean, belong to the Prudential Lines, which the Skourases have owned since 1960. Soon Spyros S. will move the family into the ranks of important shippers. With backing from two New York banks, Marine Midland and Chase Manhattan, he has agreed to buy the 24-ship Grace Line fleet from W.R. Grace...
...temperature in Quebec City was 10° F., and Princess Grace of Monaco, in town for the annual Winter Carnival and a visit to an old friend, Mrs. Gilles Lamontagne, wife of the mayor, was appropriately cool and collected when newsmen collared her for some comments. On the problem of raising bilingual children (French and English): "I'm still waiting for someone to write a handbook on it." On the trials of being an exactress: she finds it "flattering" to receive film offers but politely declines them. As for films in general: "I'm awfully tired of seeing...
...real meaning of the grace-period decision depends on one key question: whether Finch's momentary retreat is a hint of weaker stands to come. Both Thurmond in his satisfaction and the Journal in its anguish have worked from the common assumption that it is. So have many Southern schoolmen, who now imagine that the desegregation plans they finally conjure up won't have to be too rigorous to meet Nixon administration standards...
...Finch also firmly intended to force compliance without any annoying grace period. Before he can enforce the guidelines, he may have to butt heads with Jamie, Strom, and Dick...