Word: grand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Ahlers doubtless talked too much, average Germans and the German press could hardly be blamed for displaying a bit of self-satisfied pride in the strength of their currency. But as soon as the leaders of Bonn's Grand Coalition sensed how poorly the German gloating was being received elsewhere in Europe, they moved without hesitation to curb the enthusiasm of their countrymen. In a radio interview, Willy Brandt gave the Germans a lesson in prudent international etiquette. Said the Foreign Minister: "Arrogance toward our neighbors and partners would be stupid and dangerous." Chancellor Kiesinger warned his people...
...film made by one's host, particularly when that host happens to be the Chief of State? But in splendid Asian fashion, a decision that satisfied everyone was reached. Prizes were given out to entries from Japan, North Viet Nam, Canada and the National Liberation Front. And the Grand Prize? It went to The Little Prince, produced, directed and written...
...those moments that every performer dreads. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz was halfway through Rachmaninoff's Sonata in B-Flat at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. And then-poing!-the sound of string #17 (bass A-note) giving way on the Steinway concert grand. An embarrassed unease settled over the hall while a technician frantically made repairs. Finally, Horowitz completed the piece and responded to the thunderous ovation with four encores. Said the famed firm's president, Henry Z. Steinway: "Each time this happens I want to crawl into the woodwork." Soothed Horowitz: "It's like a flat tire...
...play with your model airplanes in Graceland and sip Pepsis, while we're off somewhere, thirty or so? The last few minutes of the program are a rerun of the first few. "I'm Evil" again. You started it, Elvis. The liberator. The martyr to our increased sophistication. Grand old man. He's exactly the same as he was ten years ago, exactly. He started it. We love you, Elvis...
When the U.S. Supreme Court approved consolidation of the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads last January, it opened a new right of way for railroad mergers on a grand scale. National policy, the court noted, requires that railroads be allowed to unite into a "limited number of systems." In accord with the Supreme Court's doctrine, a special three-judge Federal District Court in Washington last week flashed a long-awaited green light for a merger that would create the nation's longest railroad...