Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overtaken. Shortly after noon, the first wreckage was sighted. On the impenetrable, rock-jagged slope between Chuar (pronounced shwar) Butte and Temple Butte, just inside the eastern edge of the majestic Grand Canyon, lay the shattered pieces of the Constellation, identifiable by her tail surfaces. Around 7 o'clock the next morning, searchers found the remains of the United 718 on a ledge at the top of Chuar Butte, 1,000 ft. from the Connie...
...showing people queuing for coffee. He could not stand jokes about himself. He consulted his own Democratic Party less and less, surrounded himself more and more with yes men. But he was still enough of a machine politician to win elections and keep a well-drilled majority in the Grand National Assembly. He put his waning popularity down to ignorance and misunderstanding...
...Mark you, tomorrow they will be back." But the opposition did not return next day, and their spokesman announced that henceforth they would boycott the National Assembly. Thus, thin-skinned Adnan Menderes will be free of niggling criticism not only in public meetings but in the Grand National Assembly itself. Probably no one but Adnan Menderes found that prospect reassuring...
...legal fees" from promoters of high-profit veterans' land deals. He was indicted for conspiracy to defraud the state of $154,100 in one of the deals, but escaped prosecution when the indictment was killed on a technicality over the qualifications of one of the grand jurors...
...films and 900 shorts, all produced before 1949. Among the features-some of the nation's most popular movies in the past three decades -are Easter Parade, Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Gaslight, National Velvet, The Great Ziegfeld, Boys Town, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Wizard of Oz, Big House, Grand Hotel, San Francisco, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Good Earth, Little Women, The Three Musketeers, David Copperfield, Treasure Island, A Tale of Two Cities...