Word: grand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There will be a grand opening celebration in the beginning of September when the rest of renovations are complete, Brown said...
...many of the more than 20 Western hostages in Lebanon, including nine Americans, have also made release of the prisoners in Kuwait their key demand. In Washington, Administration officials said hostages freed from Flight 422 indicated that Hassan Izz-al-Din, one of four men indicted by a federal grand jury for Stethem's slaying, might be on the Kuwaiti plane...
...knocked down and to have to get up, that's the ticket. Never mind that it was he who arranged for most of his pratfalls; the getting up still elevates the comedian to something grand. Hard to believe. After all that one knows about Nixon, you would think it is impossible to feel admiration for him, much less affection, but then you realize that you are staring across the study at a man whom the citizens of your country elected to save it and to lead the world, not once but twice, nearly three times; who right now, today, senses...
This colorful crew is self-satirizing. Any moralizing comment on their behavior would be superfluous. As for the central triangle (a cad, a cuckold and a tin-hearted tart deluded into thinking she has at last found a grand passion), it is too banal to awaken much emotion. Nor is there any point in using these figures from a remote society for social criticism. No, Radford has done the right thing with his material by observing the exaggerated tonalities of glamour-trash fiction. As a result, White Mischief plays as something a lot of people claim to have been missing...
...Smidt were named the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League Players of the Week. Aron hit .833 with 10 hits in 12 plate apperances. The third baseman slugged two home runs, two triples, and a double. In Harvard's 15-7 win over Brown, Allen was two-for-four with a grand slam and a triple, knocking in four runs. Allen finished the weekend with another four-ribbie performance against Yale, cracking a solo home run and knocking in three runs on a pair of singles...