Word: grander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curley found himself elected Governor. The four years that followed were as riotous as any in State House history. He controlled patronage on a grander scale than ever, and had unlimited opportunities to harass his friends from Harvard. To replace the noted Commissioner of Education, Payson Smith, Curley appointed a woolly-minded old crony who had once taught in a country school. The man promptly enraged even Ward 17 by changing his name from Reardon to the more distinguished Reardan...
With increasing power, Nasser grew mercurial, showed signs of quicker arrogance. He wearied of his insurmountable domestic problems and preferred to busy himself with grander international affairs. "I really have no plans; I just react," he liked...
...even grander scale, he has accused Meyner of permitting "a complete breakdown at the state level in the law enforcement machinery," and has hinted darkly that the administration is covering up a "major garbage collection scandal" in Bergen County until the election is over...
...council government must continue to pay 150, 000 government employees (in a population estimated at 3,000,000). carry on an elaborate pension plan, and absorb the losses of at least seven mismanaged nationalized businesses, e.g., liquor manufacturing, a repertory theater, railroads. The result is deficit spending on a grander scale each year-and consequent inflation...
...potatoes?" Though the press-TV battle is widely debated in New Mexico, it was symptomatic of publishers' and broadcasters' sensitivity to criticism that neither the Associated Press nor the United Press filed a single story on the fight. Nor was it an isolated skirmish. On a grander scale, some TV network executives charge, economic rivalry is prompting newspapers to wage a subtle and far-reaching campaign to discredit TV even while they promote it. Item: Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram and Sun in the past month has run four Page One stories quoting authorities ranging...