Word: grand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some saw the move as a self-serving attempt to increase his stature in history. Others accepted at face value Johnson's statement that he wanted "to preserve the honor, integrity and dignity of the office of the presidency" and considered his action a grand, even noble gesture for the sake of the nation. "I doubt if any single speech in history has so abruptly turned feelings around on one man," said California Democratic Committeeman Eugene Wyman. "He really defused the hatred toward...
...Sanh's pocked runway. Thus, after 76 harrowing days, the siege of Khe Sanh last week came to an ironic end. What had loomed as the great set-piece battle, a la Dienbienphu, of the entire war-the ultimate test of Hanoi's military menace and the grand symbol of U.S. determination-dissolved at last almost without a shot being fired...
Augusta National was founded in 1930 by Jones, the wealthy Atlantan who astounded the golfing world that same year by sweeping all four of the game's major tournaments: the U.S. and British Amateurs, the U.S. and British Opens. Retiring after his Grand Slam, Jones decided to build an "ideal" golf club on the site of an old indigo plantation in Augusta, a popular winter watering place for Northern socialites. The plantation's Georgian manor house was converted into a clubhouse, Scottish Architect Alister MacKenzie was commissioned to design a course that would, in Jones's words...
...COLUMNIST, in one of those flip phrases that brand decades, called this "a woman's era." The tag seemed particularly apt from the floor of the Grand Ballroom in New York's ultra-plush Waldorf Astoria last Monday, April 1, where the National Council of Women of the United States lunched 650 women at 25 dollars a plate to commemorate its eightieth anniversary...
...affair was billed as a "First Ladies Luncheon." Seated at more than 62 tables in the sumptuous red-gold-blue Grand Ballroom were prominent doctors, musicians, presidents of department stores, architects, and lawyers, ambassadors and ambassadors' wives, wives of governors, women housing commissioners, women officials in local, state, and federal government, women in life insurance, women in publishing, and the first woman member of the New York Stock Exchange. There were elegant ones, and dowdy ones, and young ones, and black ones, and behatted ones. The ladies were fed on seagull soup, delicate chicken breasts with green noodles and pickled...