Word: grand
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...around athlete, Broberg also leads the Indians with a .600 batting average, including a grand slam against Norwich and two home runs off Worcester pitchers...
...person for whom thinking fulfills at once the function of work and play." Clearly, an intellectual's mind is not restricted to one discipline, but ranges widely in many areas, seeking larger patterns. No mere expert or operator, the true intellectual aims for synthesis, moral vision, a grand design...
...around Mars. In 1973, two "Viking" missions are scheduled to make soft landings on the planet's surface. Also proposed is a Venus-Mercury "minitour" using the Venusian gravitational force to whip a satellite on toward Mercury. Perhaps most visionary of all is NASA's dream of "Grand Tour" flights to the "outer" planets-Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The four outer planets will be aligned in such a way that a single craft launched between 1976 and 1978 could fly by all of them. Such an alignment will not recur for 179 years...
...artistic shadow of J.M.W. Turner, who was almost exactly his own age but far more successful in contemporary eyes. In retrospect, it seems as if the dashing Turner should have been the neglected revolutionary and Constable the acclaimed conservative. But Turner, however radical his techniques, still painted the grand subjects and the dramatic scenes congenial to the Romantic taste; by contrast, Constable's themes seemed merely homely. Turner was a poet of the imagination, Constable a poet of the real. Turner saw a vision of hell in a snow storm; Constable could see a vision of heaven...
...Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium rests upon a slight, bright springboard: a bunch of American tourists undergoing a special kind of American masochism called nine European countries in 18 days. What could have been a Grand Hotel on wheels swiftly degenerates into a bus of fools, overpopulated with drooling Babbitts and hatchet-faced moms. Humor centers around the foreign John with its mysterious bidet and its waxy toilet paper. A sleazy double-entendre occasionally surfaces, as when the tour guide observes that the cockney word for sausages is (smirk) bangers...