Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After Grand Admiral Doenitz (now in Berlin's Spandau jail), Goebbels (who shot himself), Martin Bormann (still missing, presumed alive), Seyss-Inquart (hanged at Nürnberg), and Gauleiter Paul Giesler (killed...
Names make news. Last week these names made this news: Italian movie reporters, holding their annual banquet for film luminaries in Rome's Grand Hotel, succeeded in plunging some of the glamorous guests, cinemactresses from many nations, into a pleasantly informal rivalry over the matter of whose neckline plunged deepest...
Lawyer Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., thumbed down by voters in his run for Attorney General of New York last November, popped up in Miami, summoned newsmen to his $175-a-day hotel suite and announced a grand business venture. As board chairman of Base Metals Mining Corp., Ltd., Roosevelt was on his way to Jamaica, where he claims his company has sewed up oil rights on the whole island, and will soon hopefully drill his first well...
...Buenos Aires last week, competitors in the Argentine Grand Prix took part in one of the hottest motor races on record. As the temperature soared to 104° in the shade, drivers wilted like limp lettuce, and some dropped out to recuperate from heat exhaustion every few laps on the burning 2.4-mile track. Cars changed hands so often that a partisan crowd, rooting for Argentine Favorite José Froilan González in his Italian Ferrari, often found itself cheering his teammates, France's Maurice Trintignant or Italy's Giuseppe Farina...
Andresen led a field of 77 racers over the tricky 79-gate course on the Grand Canyon Trail...