Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ideas on how to run Germany were shared by many of his subordinate officers. The ideas: 1) restore normal conditions to prevent anarchy; 2) get German industry back into shape so that the U.S. taxpayer will not have to foot the bill; 3) show the Germans "what grand fellows...
...Phillips Oppenheim, 79, who has written 150-odd thrillers about international espionage, murder, grand dukes and grand larceny, returned to his prewar Guernsey (Channel Islands) home. On the Oppenheim stove: a sizzler with World War II trimmings...
...Amber, U.S. sexseller (nearly a million copies), appeared this month on London's bookstalls. English critics thumbed through and condemned it as tedious, bad writing and worse taste. Typical was the reaction of the Evening Standard's reviewer: "Miss Winsor has attempted an erotic novel on a grand scale, swoony with ill-defined sex, written in a style that rasps the nerves like a Brooklyn accent. I gave up on page 272, by which time Amber had reached her eighth...
...long silence emerged the grand old man of a bygone Japanese liberalism-indomitable Yukio Ozaki, 85, ex-Cabinet Minister, ex-mayor of Tokyo, Diet member since 1890, lifelong champion of parliamentary government. He had survived terrorist threats, Government persecution and the corrosion of "thought-control." Now stone deaf, Ozaki last week called on his Diet colleagues to resign rather than "persist in past practices of blind obedience to the Government...
Every week, the good citizens of La Rochelle saw the respected Donadieu family march in stately procession to Holy Mass, led by Grand Old Man Oscar Donadieu, La Rochelle's eminent shipping magnate. Every week, old Donadieu's youngest daughter, Martine, stealthily opened her bedroom window and admitted her handsome lover, Philippe, La Rochelle's most unscrupulous Casanova...