Word: grand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...blue shirt, Party Secretary-General Waldeck Rochet told a crowded news conference that the Communists had just signed an agreement to collaborate with two major non-Communist parties-the Socialists and Radicals -and a group of small but highly influential leftist "political clubs." Seated quietly beside Rochet, in a grand display of their new-found unity, were Socialist Party Secretary-General Guy Mollet and François Mitterrand, president of the powerful Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left...
...Just as Bailey candidly set out to "destroy" the late Marilyn Sheppard last month in his successful fight to win Sam Sheppard's acquittal for her murder. He portrayed Marilyn as an adulteress killed by a jealous wife. Last week, after an investigation, a Cuyahoga County, Ohio, grand jury dismissed Bailey's claim as having "no basis in truth or fact" and rebuked him for raising it. Though Bailey won a new trial for Sheppard by claiming prejudicial press coverage, the publicity in the Coppolino case clearly did not harm the defendant. Superior Court Judge Elvin Simmill...
...been the first in the business of building bridges to the East. The rest of NATO found it all the easier to lean his way because of the new direction in West German policy. After years of intransigence in East-West relations, the Federal Republic under the new grand coalition of Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger was doing things that not even De Gaulle could undertake. In its first policy statement to the Bundestag last week, Kiesinger, after placing top priority on good relations with both France and the U.S., pledged friendship for Poland, declared his desire for a better understanding with...
...European theater, he continually opposed the dangerous dispersion of U.S. forces on peripheral operations. He did not disguise the fact that he found hair-raising some brilliantly improvised British plans for commando-type raids on the German-held coasts of Europe. He felt that they might dissipate the grand design that culminated in the huge assault on the beachheads of Normandy. He was not a commando-minded man-and it was just as well...
...reports and statistical analysis, all the grand designing that has gone into the draft debate seems less grand when it is remembered that Rep. L. Mendel Rivers (D-S.C.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, is a very close friend of Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, the director of Selective Service...