Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mixture as Before. Such synthetic crusades, a trademark of Hearst journalism, are unlikely to survive their inventor. No one else in his empire would dare show such a grand, bland disregard of news values. The campaigns come in three basic sizes, to fit local, moral and national issues. But the strategy is always the same...
...A.M.A. is aware that it will take more than medals to solve the family doctor's problems. In Cleveland last week, a few family doctors spoke their minds. Said a Grand Rapids, Mich, doctor: "At present, the general practitioner can't even remove tonsils in a hospital. He has become a glorified orderly." Said a Salt Lake County, Utah, doctor: "The general practice man is tired of being a reference bureau for the specialist...
...Manhattan's Grand Central Palace last week there was the feel of the sea. As yachtsmen crowded into the 1948 National Motor Boat Show, they were "piped aboard" by the cheery notes of a boatswain's whistle. There was another cheery note: in the cheaper price class there were more boats than ever. Some prices were down from last year's, though most were...
...Grand & Interesting." The shrillest greetings to 1948 came from the official trumpets of world Communism. Boomed Moscow's Pravda: "The age of capitalism is approaching its end." Russian kids, despite Marxist disapproval of all fairy tales except the Marxist one, crowded around Santa Claus (who in Russia is called Grandfather Frost and calls on Jan. 1-see cut). The Moscow radio started the year by broadcasting the cries of a newborn baby. "We don't know your name yet," cooed Announcer Yuri ("The Golden Voice of Victory") Levitan, "but we know you will have a grand and interesting...
...Grand Central and Pennsylvania Stations, crowds stormed train gates, until extra police details herded them into order. The thousands who panted through the scrimmage into commuter cars soon regretted their triumph. Trains got stuck as soon as they left the city...