Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...striking power and the American people (last week a mock atomic attack on Denver left 47,000 assumed dead). "If SAC is to remain an effective deterrent, it must be reasonably secure against enemy attack on its bases," said the No. 1 U.S. airman, General Nathan Twining. "One grand-scale atomic blow by the Soviets on our industrial and population centers could be decisive...
Manhattan's Town Hall was cold and empty one morning last week, as a small, dark-haired woman deposited her mink coat and shawl on a stage table, set up her metronome, covered her shoulders with a sweater, and sat down at the concert grand. For the next two hours she worked from page to page of Beethoven's "Waldstein" Sonata, starting at dead-slow tempo, one hand at a time, working up to half tempo, patiently repeating certain figures again and again, uncovering little melodies hidden in the passagework, testing the spaces between chords for the precise...
...most distinguished accolade on the products of his pencil. This week, "for his powerful, style-forming mastery of the art of modern narration," the Nobel Prize for Literature will be awarded to Ernest Miller Hemingway, originally of Oak Park, III, and later of most of the world's grand and adventurous places...
...past, when the routine at Finca Vigia grew too distracting, Hemingway found escape along grand avenues-a return to the plains below Tanganyika's Kilimanjaro or another trip to Venice, or a nightclub-and-museum-crawling trip to New York. But for the battered and mellowing Hemingway of today, the favorite refuge is his boat...
...grand opening of Northeastern's gym on Saturday was a complete flop as far as its team was concerned. An undefeated University of Massachusetts five beat the Huskies...