Word: grand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suffer on, patting these little bearded urchins on the back for having the grand old guts to get off the treadmill, to stand up against hypocrisy and immortality. And it is all very strange to see that at the root of the civil disobedience, and at the root of the test cases, is a lousy weed
...Sosthènes Behn was one of the last grand old gentlemen of finance, at ease with king or laborer alike. ITT represented, to its thousands of workers, one man, who commanded their fierce loyalty, love and admiration. I am glad Colonel Behn did not live to see his dream become a giant conglomerate, where the personal touch and human values are lost in the balance sheet, drowned in the quest for the almighty dollar...
...change in management brought him back on a five-minute radio show that is still running. Since then, Gordon has found out that Wayne County Sheriff Peter Buback was illegally selling raffle tickets for his own re-election campaign committee. Buback has since been indicted by a grand jury, is now awaiting trial. Topping off Gordon's electronic exposure of peccadilloes, Basil Brown, chairman of the state-senate judiciary committee, publicly confessed to alcoholism and numerous drunk-driving arrests on Gordon's TV program after the commentator had raked him over the coals...
...just died, having spent most of his life in brash discord with the Yankee landowning gentry. But before he dies, Con has a vision of personal revenge and future glory for his daughter Sara: "She'll live in a Yankee mansion, as big as a castle, on a grand estate of stately woodland...
...were staged in Bardenberg, Germany. By then the entrepreneurs had run short of ideas, so the liveliest moments came with the so-called "fruit bowl" game, in which contestants tried to break balloons by rocking up and down in an animal cutout. The German team won the $12,150 grand prize. Runner-up France received a 200-pound salami, compliments of the Bardenberg sausage industry...