Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only in Great Britain did opinion hold firm that the U.S. was not softening its policy. Yet even in Britain the sense of urgency was diminishing. The North Atlantic Alliance had official backing, but the more difficult problems of Western Union had stopped progress toward that "grand design...
...rail route from North China to new Nationalist lines just 30 miles above Nanking. Defended "by less than 100,000 second-line troops, Chiang's capital was open to a giant pincer attack at two points: Yangtze River crossings east of the city at the mouth of the Grand Canal, or to the west where they also could mass river craft...
Before the war she frequently took groups of musicians to Europe with her. She has, in fact, presented concerts in practically every large city. She declines to verify a story about a visit to Venice. Riding down the Grand Canal in a gondola one day, it is said, her craft was suddenly surrounded by a host of others, full of Venetians shouting thanks to the great American who had helped their Malipiero. She tosses it off as legend and indeed she is bound to be legendary. As well as being the most generous music patron in America...
...residents found out that the boys had come directly after church, skipping dinner to get to Driggs in time for the afternoon activity. They were too late, however, for dinner; so girls resurrected dessert remnants for refreshment. Afternoon activity turned out to be cards and sporadic banging on the grand plano...
Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalists were in no mood to heed Epstein's protests. They were hard at work on their grand design to oust non-Europeans from any participation in South Africa's government (TIME, Oct. 25). The latest target of their campaign was the Natives' Representative Council, which had been set up in 1936 to assist Parliament in making laws affecting Negroes. Its six government-appointed white members and 16 Negroes (twelve of them elected) formed a purely advisory body. "The N.R.C.," one of its members once said, "is like a toy telephone...