Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because of the invaluable sacrifices your country made to restore our freedom or would it be for the grand way in which you have been helping us since...
Poles Apart. In Grand Rapids, after 22 days on high, flagpole sitter Marshall Jacobs climbed down from his perch several weeks ahead of schedule, explained that he wanted to talk to his bride, had been unable to get a phone...
Naturally, proper names are one grand mal de tête. Unfamiliar names of newsmakers erupt into the headlines almost daily-Marshal Fevsi Çakmak. Princess Sukhodhaya, Sir Ofori Atta. And rare is the week that strange place names don't pop up, as the news shifts around from earthquakes in the Caribbean to incidents in the air over Yugoslavia. For months now the research librarian in charge of the Biography files in our Morgue has been working on a great continuing project to assist researchers in checking the proper names and titles of foreigners...
...Indianapolis for their 80th Encampment this week went the twelve sturdiest of the Grand Army of the Republic's 84* surviving members. They needed their sturdiness. To G.A.R.'s ancients the raucous bedlam swirling around their chairs in the lobby of the Claypool Hotel was almost as terrifying as Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. But after 2,000 members of the Midwest Federation of Syrian Lebanon Clubs had packed up their tom-toms and left town, the old soldiers began to get attention...
...Izvestia's blast, Radio Moscow-which must not have read its daily paper very thoroughly-put on another half-hour of Eddy Rozner's band. Included in the program: a hepped-up version of the Volga Boat Song, a swing finale full of cracks at Russian grand opera...