Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roosevelt's Ambassador to Moscow, Averell Harriman, confirmed that the grand alliance was indeed crumbling, specifically, that the Russians would sanction no form of democratic government for Poland. "Every argument ... I advanced was brushed aside," Harriman reported. "Aside from the major questions which are causing concern in our relations with the Soviet Union, there has been an accumulation of minor incidents . . . Little or no progress has been made in getting Soviet approval for our air teams to visit Soviet-controlled territory for appraisal of bomb damage, or for our naval team to [inspect the port of] Gdynia. Both proposals...
...coed Joan Culver, 18, new queen of the Tournament of Roses, which adds to the hoopla of the Rose Bowl football game. In the vanguard of the traditional mammoth parade through Pasadena this week, "Engine Charlie" Wilson rode in a flossy, rose-festooned convertible as the procession's grand marshal...
Most of Broadway's brightest names turned out in regiment strength at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to hail Theater Grandame Helen Hayes, 55, on the soth anniversary of her first stage appearance. In the grand finale, while Actress Hayes listened with proud Victorian regality, everybody on stage serenaded her with an affectionate rendering of The Way You Look Tonight...
...they tittered behind lace kerchiefs at the coquettish young chambermaids, amorous old goats and desperately conspiratorial lovers. But these small houses in time were replaced by the giant "imperial" or "state" opera houses that are still standing, and the little drawing-room operas were shoved aside by 19th century grand opera...
...judgment today will concern only two counts of the original six-count indictment a Federal Grand Jury returned against Kamin more than a year ago. In a ruling Nov. 2, Judge Aldrich acquitted Kamin on two of the counts and dismissed two others...