Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Equally, it would be fatal for NATO now to relax and let apathy overtake what has been achieved." Nevertheless, in the long run, "our main theme of salvation should be the Grand Alliance of the European powers, linked with Canada and the U.S. The spirit of this arrangement should not exclude Russia and the Eastern European states. It may well be that the great issues which perplex us could then be solved more easily than they can by rival blocs confronting each other with suspicion and hostility. That is for the future...
...true that after six o'clock in the evening, at parties and in bars, cocktails, whiskies, and gin-and-tonics--which, everyone knows, has a quinine base--plunge three quarters of the population into a euphoria which gives to young people a daring that they normally lack and to grand-mothers an illusion of perpeual youth. In this policed, Puritanical society, one must have an "out"; alcohol is one. And drink must not be heavy ... but sufficient to stimulate the nerves and quicken the blood for an hour, without leaving any after-taste or memory. Thus the [young] girls...
...opener is The Maid as Mistress (La Serva Padrona) by Pergolesi. Originally written for performance between the acts of a grand opera, The Maid has survived as a minor masterpiece while the serious works of the period have been forgotten...
...back into Locust Street, and when the police reappeared, began throwing eggs and stones again. This time the police went after the rioters in earnest. Result: 116 students landed in the clink, and 28, charged with everything from disturbing the peace to assault and battery, were held for the grand jury...
...state, by virtue of our power, we automatically become a major nation, with a manifest destiny to conquer not only Radcliffe, but also Central Square, M.I.T., and eventually Katie Gibbs. Should the necessity arise, we might also (reluctantly) take over the rest of the world. Obviously, to accomplish these grand schemes Free Harvard would require a strong political organization. Fortunately, we have such a long tradition of sheer autocracy under deans and other supernumeraries that we cannot fail to be a powerful state. Luckily the University has not been afflicted with any of this unhealthy milksop Student Council Democracy stuff...