Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unimpressed by Beck Sr.'s shouts and convinced that his boy had indeed done something wrong, a jury of nine men and three women found the younger Beck guilty on two counts of grand larceny. Then prosecutors turned their attention to the man who was standing behind him. Accused of grand larceny in the sale of still another Teamsters' Cadillac, Dave Beck Sr. will go on trial next week in the same court...
That Beu would welcome back a player guilty of grand larceny was too much for the faculty. Professors began writing the Macomb Journal all sorts of reports about the Beu administration. Beu angrily called a faculty meeting, threatened to fire all informers, ordered his professors to stop calling his players stupid. It was the professors, he said, and not the players, who were stupid. But the letters to the Journal kept right on coming in, one complaining of "the young scholars who spend their afternoons on the gridiron and their evenings with their fingers in somebody else's cashbox...
...Salvatore Moretti, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese. (He taught "Socrates to the moderns," but not Machiavelli, he added thoughtfully, "because the philosophy of the end justifying the means is immoral.") This duty followed long after the time he was jailed on separate occasions for practicing medicine without a license and grand larceny...
AFRICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION will be speeded by $3 billion Inga hydroelectric project, the world's biggest, to start building soon near mouth of the Congo River. Complex of dams and power stations will generate 200 billion kw-h a year-about twelve times the output of Grand Coulee Dam -for power-short central Africa. Belgium figures project will attract $15 billion to $20 billion in Congo industrial investment...
Laverne Baker, the grand lady of the rhythm world, emerged from the wings in a dress sprayed on by an atomizer. And the tumult shook all gods from their cynical periphery...