Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Harold R. Stark, recently commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe (where he was made an honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire), but on Pearl Harbor Day Chief of Naval Operations...
...thin, tired man who had seen the Stars & Stripes pulled down in the Pacific went on to see it raised over the home islands of Japan. At Yokohama's New Grand Hotel he was embraced by his old commander, sat down to dinner served by bowing Japanese. There was a pistol at his hip. To U.S. correspondents on Japanese soil Skinny Wainwright said: "It's good to be back a free man and an American soldier wearing a gun again...
...officers at Atsugi were shepherded to a comfortable mess hall and given turtle soup, roast beef and egg sandwiches.* They had expected to sleep on the ground but were shown to comfortable beds with snowy linen sheets. Japanese guided the Americans to MacArthur's headquarters in the New Grand Hotel on Yokohama's picturesque waterfront-the one part of the city the bombs had not touched. Just off the lobby, with its pink plush and ornate carving, a bucktoothed, bespectacled Japanese girl helped a U.S. sergeant allot rooms to U.S. brass. The manager was in a managerial frenzy...
While all this business is going on, the company gives out with four fine tunes by Richard Rodgers (lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II). The two most likely to succeed: It's a Grand Night for Singing and It Might as Well Be Spring...
Life with Father. Father Motilal Nehru was the leading lawyer and one of the richest men in Allahabad. He bought a great, rambling show place, raised his three children in grand British Raj style with "many horses, dogs, cars and carriages" and a strict English governess for the two girls, Swarup and Krishna. Jawaharlal, 18 years Krishna's senior, was the family favorite. Educated at Harrow and Cambridge, he went home in 1912. With his return began the joint family life of dedication to their country's Nationalist cause...