Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minds of many men. Peace treaties had indeed been signed with Italy and other Axis satellites, but the countries still faced questions as grave as any that had been settled. No treaties with Germany and Japan were in sight. It had been Franklin Roosevelt's Grand Design, epitomized in his gamble at Yalta, that the West could reach an understanding with Soviet Russia. In continuation of the wartime alliance (and in exchange for a Western wink at Moscow's absorption of millions of hapless non-Russians and 275,000 square miles of territory for greater "security"), the Kremlin...
Lines around the Square reached peak length at mid-afternoon, when 250 students formed a grand march that wound from the back of the Coop into the street, and then up two flights of stairs until it reached the Valhalla of the second floor book stalls. Book-seekers waited 2 1/2 hours...
...audience of 900 in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom, grave Secretary of State George Catlett Marshall, chief of the 65-man U.S. delegation, cited a more accurate and less happy figure. "A recent survey," he said, "revealed that one out of three people in the U.S. still does not know what the United Nations is or what it does." He also called upon the U.N. General Assembly to devise means to protect the Greek people from Communist aggression. But he left them free to figure out how this is to be done...
...heartstrings will be pulled," said a tired British delegate, "but the mere cold facts will tell an eloquent tale." At the Grand Palais in Paris, he and other delegates were working 15 hours a day last week to finish Western Europe's response to the Marshall approach. They had little time for anything but the cold facts. The conference bureau had not sold a theater seat in two weeks. This strict attention to business had produced some results. One delegate reported on the conference's biggest achievement...
...delegate summed up the prevailing mood at the Grand Palais: "Europe will have to work harder. The United States will have to ... [help] fill the inevitable gap during the next four years. But it's no good sending dollars; they return to America like homing pigeons...