Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also invited before the Grand Jury was Railman Loomis who appeared in Washington in no sweet mood. Said he: "You don't expect ME to discuss anything that happens at a private dinner, do you? You'll have to rely on the laboratory experience and smelling propensities of Senator Brookhart...
...three year statute of limitations will bar the Grand Jury from action within a few weeks...
Rushing on like a surfboard rider upon the flood of his discourse, M. Briand spoke for 90 minutes before reaching his grand climax...
...Pronounce the Word!" It was now four hours past midnight. The grand debate narrowed to an issue?and what an issue! Some Deputies of the Left (thoroughgoing anticlericals) demanded to know "if the Government will pronounce the word 'laicism'" in connection with an obscure educational bill totally extraneous to the debate...
First he telegraphed urgent orders that reserves should be rushed to the war section in Honan for a "grand offensive." Secondly, he wired that his armies would "sit composedly and starve the rebels out." Within 48 hours, and without previous warning, the President's field headquarters radioed: "The dead are piled mountain high. We have recaptured Mihsien" (25 miles from the vital rail junction Cheng-chow...