Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maneuver the C.G.T.'s six million members so as to take maximum political advantage of the bitter discontent arising from high living costs. The delicacy arose from an inhibition familiar to all Communist leaders: Frachon must not let his workers' drive for higher wages disrupt Russia's worldwide grand strategy. For example, anything approaching a Communist-led general strike in France would force a premature showdown in the French coalition government and stiffen the West's resistance against Russian demands at next month's Moscow Foreign Ministers Conference...
...Island God together got only nine Met performances (he was paid about $150 a time). In 1939 he wrote a modest little chamber opera for the radio, The Old Maid and the Thief, which has since been given 100 times and earned far more than his grand operas...
...most elegant hotel last week a tattered legion of would-be emigrants kept watch by one of Europe's few exits. When Juan Peron's Government announced that Argentina wanted manual workers (TIME Jan. 27), hundreds of Italians streamed through the plushy corridors of the Grand Hotel, where the immigration commission was set up. After a few days of this, the management brushed them out through the revolving door towards the rainy Piazza, dell' Esedra. Here, under the pampered ilex trees, they waited their turn, munched bread and cheese, lounged against the new Buicks and Chryslers...
...moves like the bus, Sweetheart, through a day of heavy spring rains in the Salinas valley country of California. The setting, familiar to Steinbeck readers, comes out fresh and fragrant in Steinbeck's prose. A few of the characters are fragrant too, but his story, a sort of Grand Hotel in a bus, is cunning and cheap. The Book-of-the-Month Club, though making the book its March choice, has warned its readers: "Mr. Steinbeck . . . may write too freely for the taste of some readers, particularly parents who may have teen-age children...
Tommy Drohan and Bob Aaron, in that order, split the honors for the Crimson in the Dive. At this point the Lion raised a little growl as Columbia's St. John with his teammate Fred Dupuy adding a point, won the 100 free. Then a Columbia' grand slam by Ed Lemaniki and Henry Avwater followed in the backstroke...