Word: grander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keyboard from treble to bass." For Private Frank Gray the thunder was "one roll, one roar, which never diminished and never increased, and which, indeed, imagination refused to conceive could be increased." After listening to a similar barrage, a U.S. Marine exulted: "I never want to have a grander feeling or I'd just naturally...
...little garden of the Busch-Reisinger Museum like an aristocrat who is more accustomed to walking across acres of a grassy estate. He wears a black hat, a black silk scarf, a black coat, black pants, white buckskins, and has the gait of a dreamer entranced by a grander age. It is not so strange that a man with such an uncommonly impeccable appearance should have created something inside the Busch-Reisinger entitled "The Exhibition of Perfect...
...report, in sum, portrays a growing industry that eventually will be looking for markets abroad but that is in need of equipment and technology. There could be good opportunities for foreign involvement, but Silin's realistic assessment of the difficulties China faces has doubtless dampened some of the grander illusions about a vast and voracious new Chinese market just coming in sight...
...behooves the U.S. to take a holier-than-thou attitude toward the Soviets and to spearhead a drive to boycott the Games in Moscow. The Soviet Union isn't guilty of doing anything in Afghanistan that we haven't already done in Viet Nam on a far grander scale...
...decade also had madmen working on a grander scale: Idi Amin, who slaughtered tens of thousands of his own people in Uganda; the Emperor Bokassa, who brought other homicidal variations on the heart of darkness to the Central African Republic. Millions of Cambodians and Vietnamese boat people were caught in the lethal politics of Southeast Asia...