Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They limited their entertaining primarily to important P. & G. people, resolved never, never to go into debt-in fact refused to buy a house until they could do it without a mortgage. In due time he bought his present grey-green stucco house (known to visiting relatives as Grand Central Station) at 3478 Vista Terrace in the Hyde Park section of Cincinnati...
Circumstantial Corpus. Shortly after the police started looking into Evelyn's disappearance, a Los Angeles grand jury indicted Scott on 13 counts of forgery and theft. Jumping $25,000 bail, he fled to Canada. A year later Canadian customs officers arrested him as he was trying to re-enter Canada after buying a new 1957 Ford in Detroit. Meanwhile, the grand jury had reconsidered the case and returned a new indictment against Scott. The charge: murder...
Armed with a pistol, a fervent young woman named Chin Lan Tse patrols the dikes that protect her village's cotton fields from the waters of the Grand Canal. But - hark! - what is that sinister shadow slinking away near by? As a dedicated Young Communist, Chin Lan Tse knows the answer: it is a skulking saboteur in the employ of the decadent Kuomintang clique. Chin Lan Tse pulls the trigger. "Bang!" and the bullet flies out. "Ah yah!" bellows the fascist running dog of capitalism as he vanishes in the night. Dauntless Chin Lan Tse pursues him, falls into...
Always the Memory. Painter Afro, 45, now showing 19 of his latest works at Manhattan's Viviano Gallery, is the best of Italy's new postwar generation. Winner of the Grand Prize for Italian painting at Venice's 1956 Biennale, he is about to spend six months at California's Mills College, where his main assignment will be a 10-ft.-by-20-ft. mural for Paris' new UNESCO headquarters...
...book, the Harvard historian mentioned that a Cook County grand jury had indicted the father for embezzlement. Schlesinger denies that he ever made any mention of the young Insull and that he never said anyone was convicted...