Word: grand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contract paid $75 a night, and Gill was guaranteed a grand total of two performances...
...Black and White's first boat finished fifth of six boats in the qualifying heats, barely qualifying for the semifinals. Another fifth-place finish in its semifinal heat eliminated Radcliffe from participating in the Grand Finals...
...Goldwater's funeral. No doubt there will be speeches from the Senate floor, tributes, words of thanks. But if there is any truth left in politics, there will be a lot of red faces. Because the party that this week comes to praise the father of modern conservatism -- the Grand Old Party that owes him so much of the political power it enjoys today -- buried Barry Goldwater years...
...privilege Clinton still retains, and has apparently exercised as many as five times, is the right to resist appearing before the grand jury himself. The White House has offered a couple of excuses: The President is too busy; the President distrusts questions from Ken Starr. The real reason for his reticence, if William Ginsburg is to be believed, may be little more than embarassment. In an open letter to California Lawyer magazine , the Lewinsky attorney congratulated Starr on doing nothing more than "unmasking a sexual relationship between two consenting adults." Whether that's the independent counsel's privilege...
...order's mysteries. Colonial lodges, says Masonic historian William Moore, offered "a civil space in which to play with self-rule in a world where democracy was not yet a fact." The brotherhood helped unite the squabbling colonies and primed them for that quintessential Enlightenment political enterprise, the Revolution. Grand master George Washington eventually set the Capitol cornerstone attired in his ceremonial apron...