Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Negroes would soon present the board of education with a school integration plan, the city commission 1) accused "certain Negroes" of "attempting to disturb the operation of the public schools," 2) pledged "full assistance" to the board of education in resisting school integration, and 3) called for a grand jury investigation of King's integration movement...
...telling how high, really, penurious Bachelor Harry Schweitzer, 75, could have built the pile if the City of New York had not arrested him last week. Charges: grand and petty larceny, violation of social welfare laws for playing the market over the past seven years out of his $71.10 monthly welfare payment...
...thrust single-chamber engine). But the division is arbitrary, a response to prejudices and rivalries rather than to the realities of the challenge. More serious than the inevitable duplications between ARPA and NASA is the fact that neither agency has the scope, resources or authority to undertake grand-scale projects or set long-range goals...
...Grand Tradition. Pianists Demus, 30, and Badura-Skoda, 31, met at Vienna's Academy of Music, started playing together purely for relaxation. Although they have made half a dozen recordings together (for Westminster), they still regard their four-hand playing as "amateur in the best sense," prefer to concentrate on their individual careers as soloists. Badura-Skoda specializes in Mozart ("I have the quicker fingers"), while Demus concentrates more on Schumann and the French repertory...
Although a federal judge had demanded he show the records to civil rights agents, Wallace gave the records to grand juries to investigate complaints of irregularities in registering voters. However, the Barbour jurors offered to permit the agents to inspect the records for evidence on alleged denial of Negro voting rights...