Word: grand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will be forgoing glittering displays and traditional festivities. Most of the country's Christian leaders see no end to the intifadeh. They fear that their flocks, already reduced by a century of emigration to the West, could gradually decline into virtual extinction, as has already happened to the once grand Greek Orthodox community in Muslim Turkey...
...season because they work so hard during the peak. In Italy winter travelers may find themselves staying in smaller towns or private homes, at a vineyard, a farm, in flavorful places where the local economy survives without a constant stream of tour buses. For those seeking greater amenities, the grand hotels rarely shut and are more likely to have a room at a humane price...
Arcadia was the humanist's Club Med. In it, nothing happens. Shepherds and nymphs, young soldiers and scholars, madonnas, saints and animals loll about in a state of pure being, with no future tense. Arcadia has ruins, sometimes quite grand ones -- as in Claude Lorrain's classical revisions of the pastoral landscape, here represented by the Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing, 1641 -- but Roman architecture does not include a stern call to Roman virtue and gravity. Arcadia's weather is always equable, and its views intimate and mellow. Above all, its location is not too far out of town...
...southwest corner. Harry Truman ruled against disturbing the ghost. Two years ago, Scouten tried a radar device and got an image in the same place. Among other decisions for George Bush will be whether to lift out that fragment of history and raise a few more glasses to the grand old home...
...aware of its consequences, said Frusciante. "It's a very subjective kind of situation," he said, where time dates from a computer on a program, a man's alibi, and the testimony of his friends all form admissible evidence, but with different weights assigned to them by a grand jury...