Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dusty, sun-baked capital of Khartoum, Africa's biggest new nation prepared this week for the Sudan's first general election since independence was formally achieved two years ago. On the spreading veranda of the Grand Hotel, dapper officials gazed out over the heat-shimmering waters of the Blue Nile, sipped whiskies and soda, conversed alternately in the clipped accents of Oxford and Cambridge and the throaty lilt of Arabic. Less prosperous politicos gathered for drinks or coffee at Pagoulatos' Confectionery and Bar Lord Byron...
There will be no hard decisions in store for the student who wants to take a course in music next term. The Music Department has thoughtfully provided him with a choice of one. Along with Music 1, this brings the grand total for the year of one and a half courses in the department open without prerequisite to the non-concentrator...
...that he intends to press on, in spite of the threat of worsening weather, and hopes to reach Scott Station on the Ross Sea about March 9. If he crosses Antarctica from sea to sea, he will have accomplished what the great explorer Ernest Henry Shackleton called the "last grand land journey left...
Ethical relativism has, in many people's opinion, destroyed that grand old fellow, Natural Law, and his chum, Moral Absolutism...
...Note. Freed on $7,500 bail, Christine at week's end was home again, intending to go back to classes, faced with a possible trial for vehicular homicide and grand larceny. She wandered aimlessly through the Nystroms' three-story Georgian house, once sat down to pen a short, sad note to Sperling's wife and son: "I wish it could have been me, instead of he, who died." Her pastor called to pray with her; a psychiatrist chatted with her for an hour and concluded: "I guess it amounts to the fact that there are two Christine...