Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good people of San Marino made the mistake of electing a Communist and left-wing Socialist majority to their local Parliament, the Grand Council. Heady with power, the nation's new rulers took over with an impressive program of local improvements, including nationalization of the nation's only two factories, which both manufacture ceramic souvenirs for the tourist trade. But the new deal never quite came off. One by one the Red faithful left the fold. Three weeks ago San Marino's Demo-Christian minority leader suddenly woke up to the fact that his party now commanded...
...staggering under a giant bouquet of sunflowers, hurling herself into a violent off-to-Buffalo; Kay drunk and belching through a lusty diaphragmentation of the Habanera from Carmen ("All ze men, zay want my -ceegarettes"). And always, in every word and gesture, there is the sense of style-the grand, grandstand style that harks back, in the British tradition, to the Restoration theater of manners...
...York, a federal grand jury indicted Hoffa for perjury on the grounds that he lied five times during an earlier grand jury investigation of wiretapping at his Detroit office; Hoffa last May was indicted for the wiretapping...
...Back in Grand Forks with $2.50 in his pocket, Davies opened a law office "about the size of a lavatory." He won his first case, a suit for payment on a promissory note. Says he: "It wasn't a very difficult case. The man owed the money." In 1932 Davies was elected municipal judge (at $135 a month) in Grand Forks; he served two terms and retired in 1940 because "I didn't want to get tagged with the title of police-court judge." He entered the Army as a lieutenant in 1942, held down various Stateside desk...
...collection of pale and wan but faultless abstractions by Britain's Ben Nicholson, the weightless, rainbow fantasies of France's Marc Chagall, and 30 dim-dusty canvases by Italy's Giorgio Morandi. Nicholson and Chagall were considered stiff contenders for the 300,000-cruzeiro ($3,780) grand prize. After the usual frenzied politicking, the 17 international jurymen settled on Italy's Morandi...