Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When election day finally came, 60 delegates assembled in the Grand Hall of the Patriarchate-archbishops in long beards and flowing black robes, city dwellers from Beirut and Damascus in Western suits and tarbooshes, Christians from the Hauran Desert in Arab headdresses. Each delegate was allowed three nominations. In the balloting, 42 votes went to Archbishop Ignatius Hraike, a stern Arab nationalist from Hama, Syria, 32 votes went to 73-year-old Archbishop Theodosios Abu Rajaili of Tripoli, oldest of the archbishops. Tied for third place were pro-Soviet Candidate Ghea and young Archbishop Elias Moawad of Aleppo, reputedly...
...plans to switch Russia's grain-producing area from the Ukraine to Siberia, recommends that the United States prove--through an intensive agricultural and industrial program in India--that it can match Soviet and Chinese performance. Stevenson was more cautious about the possibility of failure for the Kremlin's grand Seven-Year Plan, but admitted the propaganda effect of such undertakings on nations which can see what Communism has done in forty years in Russia and in ten years in China...
...half her life's savings gone, Mrs. Lee became disillusioned, danced off to the police. Last week, in the third court case involving an Arthur Murray affiliate in two months (TIME, Oct. 6), the manager and two instructors of the Albany dancing school faced charges of first-degree grand larceny and conspiracy. The apparent reason for the grand jury's objection to the costly lifetime membership: Mrs. Lee is 79. Conceded Mrs. Arthur Murray, vice president of the Murray chain, after defending the lifetime membership: "In her case, I don't think she'd be doing...
...falls in love with her in spite of difference of their ages, but he also aknowledges the difficuty of their wedding between young and old so that he presents the ruby string to her which was given by Joe's grand father to him and he gives up her unfortunately...
...attprmeu. Frederick Nathan, was summing up his defense of Mark Zborowski, admitted former Russian agent, who is on trial on charges of committing perjury in telling a grand jury he did not know Soble...