Word: grand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After days of sulking, le grand Charles took out his pique in public. From the Middle East crisis to China's H-bomb, the cause of all the world's troubles, he declared, is the war "unleashed in Viet Nam by American intervention." Peace in the Middle East is only possible once conflict has ended in Viet Nam, he said, and that end can only be achieved "by America's pledging to withdraw its forces within a specified time." As for Israel, "France accepts as final none of the changes effected on the terrain through military action...
...German campuses. They blame student attitudes on the scant attention paid to the nation's overcrowded educational facilities while the rest of the country has prospered, and on the stifling of political debate since Brandt's opposition Social Democrats joined the ruling Christian Democrats in the Grand Coalition in Bonn...
...renown for his idealized, 8-ft.-tall statue of Babe Ruth, his heroic busts of F.D.R., Cordell Hull and other demigods of the New Deal. In the 1940s, he moved on to more remote Greco-Roman themes, explaining that "myths are good because they give you form and a grand story. I don't want only form; I want philosophy, love. You can't make a statue of a man and a woman copulating, but you can use a woman and a swan. Then it becomes poetry...
...first time a U.S. car won a Grand Prix race was in 1921, when Jimmy Murphy of Vernon, Calif., drove a Duesenberg to victory at Le Mans at an average speed of 78.1 m.p.h. in the French Grand Prix. The second time was last week-in the fastest Grand Prix ever run. At Spa-Francorchamps, deep in the Ardennes Forest of eastern Belgium, The Star-Spangled Banner blared out over loudspeakers after California's Dan Gurney, 36, in a Formula I American Eagle, averaged 145.67 m.p.h. to win the Belgian Grand Prix...
...average cost of $50,000. To help cover the costs, they signed contracts with two commercial sponsors-Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Mobil Oil Corp. This year Mobil pulled out, leaving A.A.R. short the $300,000 it needed to mount a full-scale effort on the Grand Prix circuit...