Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With unaccustomed haste in such a case, the regime had decided to dispose of the embarrassing family scandal before Marshal Tito got back from his grand tour of Asia. The trial was said to be public, but the 100 seats in the dingy old courtroom were parceled out to hand-picked Communists, to the defendants' wives, and the lawyers. The court would not admit Djilas' aged mother, on the ground that the trial might prove too much of a strain for her. Nor would the court admit any of the 14 Western correspondents stationed in Belgrade...
...CrewCuts; Mercury). Explosive, riffing treatment of what is apparently a grand passion. Eminently suitable for barroom backgrounds...
Yvette Guilbert (Angel LP). Paris' grand old (1865-1944) Chanteuse Guilbert rasps a few of her naughty ditties in pre-LP French. Titles: Le Fiacre, Partie Carrée, L'Eloge des Vieux...
...Grand Rapids, Mich., one of the first U.S. cities to add fluorine to its water supply, celebrated the experiment's tenth anniversary with a look at the results. Among them:1) 30% fewer kindergarten children have decayed teeth, 2) first-graders have 75% fewer cavities, 3) eighth-graders have lost 50% fewer teeth...
...Grand Prize (by Ronald Alexander) is a modern-style romantic comedy about a bachelor boss and his young secretary. That is to say, it is never for a moment soppily romantic: against a sophisticated Manhattan background, with flecks of satiric nonsense in the air, the parties concerned keep sex at fingernail's distance in the process of arriving at marriage. There is also a modern-style fillip to the plot: by way of a TV program, the secretary becomes her boss's boss for a day-and starts him off mixing the drinks, cleaning the apartment and doing...