Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Okanogan, Wash., a minister of the Gospel was charged with grand larceny. The rub: one Sunday in November, he stole a private plane to fly to services in Spokane...
...forced upon him. While Byrnes has been saddled with negotiations on Europe, no U.S. policy ha's been made in wide areas of the world. The U.S. Palestine policy as enunciated by Truman was mere mischievous vote-catching, as unrealistic in its extreme pro-Zionism as the Grand Mufti's antiSemitism. No one is really making policy on Latin America. On China, a key piece in the U.S. policy structure, John Carter Vincent, director of the State Department's Far Eastern Division, last fortnight rushed in to fill the vacuum left by Byrnes's absence; Vincent...
Paris, which still admires Mistinguett's ancient legs, still admired Cléo's ancient beauty. But the world had become shabby. "The opera," she said, "isn't what it used to be. In the old days around 1900 the grand staircase and the lobby used to be a show in itself. Nowadays people go to the opera in their working clothes, and I am afraid that pretty soon they will go in their overalls...
...Washington, Department of Agriculture officials announced that the border gates, recently reopened, had been shut again. This time it was a grand slam. To guard U.S. herds, the border might remain closed "for several years." For Mexico's brand-new Government, that was a real jolt. The half million head of cattle that annually went to U.S. markets had meant prosperity for the northern states; and cattle export duties had made up a big chunk of the federal budget...
...financing the benefits. They proposed to set up a five-man Board of Credit Commissioners to estimate the value of all the "assets" of the province (mountains, rivers, forests, etc.), developed or undeveloped. All this blue-sky calculation would add up, Premier Manning and friends reckoned, to the grand sum of $231 billion. To this figure they proposed to add the "capitalized productive capacity" of the 800,000 people of the province...