Word: gran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico City's Colegio Roosevelt,* twelve-year-old Guadalupe Hernandez had a composition to write. Like the rest of the pupils in the sixth grade, she would write on el Señor President Roosevelt, Mexico's gran amigo, on the first anniversary of his death (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Guadalupe did her twelve-year-old best...
...musty chambers of Lima's venerable Gran Hotel Bolívar, over bourbon-and-sodas, representatives of the world's major oil companies also studied the supposedly secret Curtice plan. They grumbled at proposed royalties that would resemble the prevailing Venezuelan scale of 16⅔%. Such percentages, they said, were fair enough in proven fields like Venezuela, but high for Peru, where exploration costs are probably the highest in the world and where the trans-Andean pipeline to bring oil out to the west coast might cost...
...apart. Life in Madrid is a pattern in extremes. The capital has Europe's most elegant and epicurean restaurants; among the best is the one operated by the famed German restaurateur Otto Horcher, who used to serve Nazi bigwigs in Berlin, Vienna and Paris. Store windows on the Gran Via display nylons, furs, silks, satins, perfumes...
...dinner in the Gran Hotel, Rios heard speakers damn the Somoza regime. Since the Chilean embassy is located in the hotel, it was technically inviolable. Somoza's police, attempting to enter and arrest the speakers, were thrown out. Later the police formed a cordon around the hotel. Some Nicaraguans stayed on & on, not daring to leave...
CAMP RIDGE, Oct. 6 (BC)--Having done up Brown the soulful strains of "Lamar, Lamar, Lamar," at tonight's pep rally, Crimson supporters will gird their loins to see the Bovine Cowen a play Garrityed to make gran-pappy say, "Geeson, old Eliott to think twice about things, in Casey hopes for a post-season game...