Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This, on the basis of actual events, was what could have happened to a commuter on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad last week: After scurrying through Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal to catch the New Haven's 5:29 train for Greenwich, Conn., the commuter settled in his seat just as the train pulled out. He did not get far: halfway through the tunnel, the train lurched to a stop, stood there for nearly an hour because its engine had broken down. Next morning the commuter, along with 15,000 others on 24 New Haven trains...
...budget made inadequate provision for paying off retainers (and creditors), began denouncing Feisal as a penny pincher. King Saud himself took off on a tour among the desert sheiks, paying out blood money (sums Arabs owe for hurting, killing or maiming one another), passing out bank notes in the grand manner. This brought him squarely into conflict with Crown Prince Feisal, who is trying to substitute a modern budget for the royal private purse. Stiffly the King demanded fresh funds to replenish his overdraft, grown to a reported $30 million. As stiffly, Feisal refused...
Imperative Demand. Two years ago, McNeill upset some 50 members of his influential, 1,200-member First Presbyterian Church by writing a magazine article calling for "creative contact" between whites and Negroes in the South-"representation of both groups on city councils, grand juries, school boards, medical societies, ministerial associations and other public agencies." Fortnight ago, he wrote a note in the church bulletin urging parishioners to read without prejudgment an article by a Columbus newspaperman saying how much better the racial situation had become in Columbus...
...epigraphs can be embarrassing, especially if they are better than the prose that follows. Busch rashly prefaces a chapter that deals with a child's illegitimacy with Ring Lardner's grand old gag about the bumpkin who remarks, on learning that his friend was born out of wedlock, "That's mighty pretty country around there." Lardner's act is hard to follow, and by comparison, Busch's novel is as solemn as a convocation of bishops. Its most egregious epigraphy comes before the climactic scene. The book's central figure, a bombastic newspaper publisher...
...from Kobe, White Russians, Poles, wives of U.S. marines, a French judo expert-had the maritime of their lives and drew $10 a day. As the cameras rolled, Realist Stone pushed his 101 performers (including George Sanders, Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack) through the paces of disaster. A grand piano plunged into the ship's chapel through a 12-ft. hole in the deck of the grand salon; Actress Dorothy Malone was trapped between sheets of boiler plate in a cabin awash with icy brine. Explosions were set off in the engine room, where a half acre...