Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the outbreak of World War II shrank the silk supply. Both advanced quickly in the war-hobbled Metropolitan, both quickly became reliable, stock-in-trade singers. In recent years they have blossomed into spectacular first-rank performers. Tucker is now the best tenor in the business, and Warren grand opera's top baritone...
...Crashing through fences and lurching over jumps like the clumsy 20-to-1 shot it was, Mrs. Geoffrey Kohn's big chestnut gelding Sundew managed to keep its footing while 24 of the 35 starters in Britain's Grand National Steeplechase sprawled on the turf, won easily by eight lengths from Wyndburgh...
Their digging resulted in the roughest, riskiest exposé ever carried by the 107-year-old Oregonian. It earned them the American Newspaper Guild's 1957 Heywood Broun Award.* And last week, as a grand jury handed down indictments in Portland, as the mighty Dave Beck fell off his high wagon, Turner and Lambert reaped the even greater satisfaction of knowing that their unlikely tale of local corruption had unfolded into a major national story...
...Journal sent a reporter along with D.A. Langley on a hoked-up raid on an Elkins aide who had some tapes in his possession. The tapes were turned over to the Journal reporter, who allowed the Teamster organizer to copy them, and were then handed to a federal grand jury, which promptly indicted Elkins for wiretapping. The Journal ran fevered "exposés" blasting the then mayor, the police chief and other officials who had helped verify the Oregonian story. The Journal even supported Sheriff Schrunk in his campaign for mayor, and Schrunk...
...morning in 1840 in Grand Coteau, La., a young mother shooed her 2½-year-old son outside to play with his big Newfoundland dog. Somehow, tumbling about with the dog, the boy got too near a boiling sugar vat and fell in. He was 43 hours dying. In his mother's diary, his death and the long watch at his bedside are recorded in three stark words: "Sacrifice! Sacrifice! Sacrifice...