Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called Cheeha-Combahee after two nearby rivers), Herter used to hunt duck, quail, deer, fox or raccoon from early to late. But years ago, osteoarthritis of the hip joints forced him to give up strenuous sports for such sedentary recreations as playing bridge (he once bid and made a grand slam with President-elect Dwight Eisenhower) and reading whodunits, a passion he shares with John Foster Dulles...
...Japan, had to be satisfied with watching it on television. Nor did those present see much of the actual ceremony. Led by the white-robed Chief Ritualist, the little wedding procession quickly disappeared within the shrine. Crown Prince Akihito, wearing his saffron-yellow robes, was attended only by his grand chamberlain, a trainbearer, a Shinto priest, and another chamberlain carrying the 700-year-old sword, the symbol of Akihito's royal rank...
Today the limestone-and-coral islands from Grand Bahama to Great Inagua hold treasure beyond Teach's wildest dreams: the northeasterly breezes that blow across them are heavy with the sweet green smell of money. A single street-front foot of Nassau's shop-lined Bay Street on New Providence Island costs as much as $10,000; clubs, marinas, luxury cottages and the private pleasure domes of the Western world's wealthy nestle among the avocado trees from one end of the 750-mile, 673-island chain to the other...
...Wasey, former ad agency executive (Erwin, Wasey & Co.), sold frs stockholdings in 1956 to concentrate on his Cat Cay Club, a heaven for well-heeled fishermen. Biggest venture of all is Freeport, a man-made harbor, industry site and bunkering installation 81 miles east of Palm Beach, Fla., on Grand Bahama Island. A $12 million joint venture of top U.S. Shipowner Daniel K. Ludwig, Promoter Wallace Groves and British Millionaire Charles Hayward, Freeport boasts a harbor dredged 30 ft. deep and capable of handling 400-ft. ships, and offshore refueling lines that can deliver 7,500 gallons an hour...
...plus government bigwigs accompanied the Pope's body on its journey. In Venice, the body of St. Pius X, enclosed in a glass coffin, was borne to a navy barge rowed to the rhythm of a drum. Followed by a procession of gondolas, the barge headed up the Grand Canal to St. Mark's, where a choir of 2,000 children and almost everyone in Venice waited...