Word: grand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush: Boydsy's right, Johnny. You're having a hard enough time convincing those Senate boys the $750 Grand you got from those defense contractors won't result in a conflict of interest when you become secretary. I mean, I know you have the discipline to stay out of things that could help your former bosses, but you still gotta convince that committee. That's gonna be even tougher now that they think that campaign contribution you received was illegal...
...them. This backdrop contains vivid scenes -- among them, the subjugation of an immense subcontinent and ancient cultures by an upstart island, and the upheavals that result when this thralldom is abruptly ended. But the history is parceled out in telling, individual details, people and places caught up in a grand design of which they are innocent and that, in the long run, may turn out to be simply chaos...
...Deng-Gorbachev summit will have a daunting list of issues to resolve before any grand hopes for an era of good feeling in the Far East are realized. Working out details of a new government order in Kampuchea will be difficult enough. Larger dreams of transforming Indochina from "a battlefield to a marketplace" or reconciling North and South Korea lie well in the future. But the 1.4 billion people of the Soviet Union and China have good cause for some quiet celebration. At the very least, they can mark the beginning of the end of a dark...
Laloux's Fantastic Planet won the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix in 1973 for its elaborate and vivid animation techniques. The futuristic plot centers on the story of the "Revolt of the Oms," survivors of a world disaster, who are kept as pets by other surviving world members...
...gave that matter-of- fact first impression of the earth's great, ghostly satellite. Lovell waxed more metaphoric as he described the great blue ball, 233,000 miles away, that he, Frank Borman and William Anders had left some 69 hours earlier. "The earth from here is a grand ovation to the big vastness of space." The world listened, enthralled. Space capsule Apollo 8 had encountered Spaceship Earth...