Word: grander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dashing as diplomats and espionage agents, grand as poets, even grander as kings, the British are notorious duds when it comes to fashion. Though endowed with better-than-average raw material, Englishwomen intent on clothes that set them off had to cross at least a channel, sometimes a sea, to find them...
...merger. With that decision, the way was opened for the creation of a 7,450-mile freight superline whose routes would reach west to Missouri and north into Canada, save the two lines $27 million in costs each year. Railroaders saw in the ICC decision a far grander design: the reconstruction of the entire Eastern rail system into a strong regional network...
Grandson Dan Fraad started in the business at the end of a mop handle, is called "Junior" by his wife and friends. His chores are not all that different from Grandfather's, though on a much grander scale. The company that started out by refilling railroad kerosene lamps now pumps three million gallons of fuel per day into jet planes at major commercial airports...
...short, which is so far from wasted. Says a Boston realtor who lives in a 74-year-old 15-roomer himself: "Of course, the basic appeal is a lot more room for less money. But beyond that-they're nicer, they're warmer, they're grander. You have the feeling that you're living in a real house...
...Geneva's Palais des Nations, the site of many grand scenes and grander disappointments, the U.S., Britain and the Common Market Six have been bickering for nine months over an ambitious plan to lower world tariffs. Bogged down in technicalities, fragmented by chauvinism, they have made little progress. Last week the U.S. took a long step toward resolving the debate, hoping thereby to clear the way at last for the "Kennedy Round" of tariff talks that is scheduled to begin...