Word: grand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...associate editor, Smith wrote this week's World story on the African leader, drawing on files from David Wood, our current bureau chief in Nairobi. The passing of Kenyatta, perhaps the last of the grand old men of the African nationalist movement, is a milestone in the history of independent Africa...
Under an arrangement with Grumman made in 1970, Page was paid a $30,000 commission for every plane sold, even if Grumman itself did the selling. Now Page has lost this deal, and a scandal has plunged Wilmot's businesses into legal troubles, including grand jury investigations, in Washington and Rochester and charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission of illegal payoffs...
...masters feel a sense of unreality about the place: Is this a real school, and are we really educating boys? Or is it all a halfhearted pretense? There is a certain staginess to the place; the grounds and buildings, donated by a rich and eccentric old lady are too grand for the modest faculty and student body. In addition the donor has imposed some peculiar conditions-evening dress must be worn at supper, for instance-that have never matured to become traditions. Boys and masters repeatedly assure one another that Dorset really is a good school...
...long have grown into vast corporations; the executives he interviews these days are members of a new breed, more sophisticated and less rambunctious than their predecessors, perhaps, but as competitive. For Hannifin, the romance of air travel has not been lost. Says he: "There is still a grand sense of freedom in the air." Must be. TIME's Photographer Dirck Halstead averaged 1,760 air miles a day for eight days to take the color pictures for our story. And, despite the crowds, Halstead still likes flying. Jerry Hannifin understands that...
Last week a 22-month Justice Department investigation of the slayings ended when a federal grand jury indicted General Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, a Pinochet crony who headed the Chilean Secret Service, which was abolished a year ago; DINA Operations Director Pedro Espinoza Bravo; DINA Agent Armando Fernández Larios and four Cuban exiles who belong to a fanatically anti-Castro group in the U.S. All seven were charged with murder...