Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the coroner's jury delayed its verdict, pending the convening of a special Glynn County grand jury to look into the whole tragic affair...
...passing reference to "those would-be wreckers of Ulster's constitution who have thrown themselves with fanatical zeal into a campaign which has touched new depths of mendacity." He added that these people had reached "a maximum of vilification and a minimum of veracity." Sir Joseph Davison, Grand Master of Orangemen, went even farther in the direction of peace. He left all mention of Catholics out of his written speech, and merely interpolated a verbal warning: "And we must ever be on the alert against the threat of rule by Popery...
...change of clothes at every appearance, coruscating with glittering jewels, shapely, brown-eyed Eva was unbeatable. Spaniards, high & low, took to her with open arms. Up & down the nation for two weeks and four days (TIME, June 23) they feted her, showered her with gifts and, as a grand climax, pinned upon her well-rounded bosom the Grand Cross of Isabella la Católica. Eva loved it. The promise of Franco's bauble had spurred her trip. The other reasons for the extravaganza were not so clear. But at least Argentina was advertised, and Eva meanwhile...
...unpolitical G.I.s on hand to meet Eva at the airport and give a low wolf-whistle as she emerged from her private plane in slick, flower-printed silk pulled skin-tight over her hips and bosom. There was an audience with the Pope, luncheon with the Foreign Minister, a Grand Hotel reception glittering with papal titles, and a dazzling performance of A'ïda under the stars in the ancient Baths of Caracalla. Eva, in black flowered silk with a white fox cape, her hair, ear lobes and shapely neck glittering with diamonds, arrived on the arm of Premier...
...Henley-on-Thames, the crew of Jesus College, Cambridge, won the big event-the Grand Challenge Cup-in which no U.S. crew was entered. Another race, for the Thames Challenge Cup, went to a U.S. schoolboy crew from Connecticut's Kent School. Kent's brawny crew (average weight: 174 Ibs.), which brought along its own supply of peanut butter and cooking fats, won easily by two lengths from Massachusetts' Tabor Academy...