Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most effective ways of breeding enmity among friendly nations is to station the troops of one country on the soil of another in peacetime. The problem is compounded when the foreign troops claim extraterritorial privileges and hold themselves not subject to local law. In the overall grand strategy of the cold war, the U.S. has sought to devise a new and workable solution to the old problems: a worldwide network of "status-of-forces agreements" designed to cover the bulk of 700,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen stationed in 49 friendly countries...
Mighty proud of Barbara Ellice Richardson, his brand-new, baby-doll bride, "a pretty girl with peculiar eyes, one brown and the other blue." the Rev. Alvin Horn, Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. trotted her down to Tuscaloosa to show off at a race-baiting get-together the boys had planned. But back in Talladega. Barbara Ellice's daddy sicked the sheriff on the honeymooners, and Barbara Ellice got clamped into custody. The reason: bouncing (5 ft. 8 in., 145 Ib.) Baby Doll is only 15. It was all news to the Reverend, a 45-year...
...Admiral Chester Nimitz, though heavily outnumbered, was not without hidden assets. Not long before, in perhaps the greatest intelligence victory of the war, the U.S. had managed to break the Japanese navy's principal code. Admiral Nimitz, thus forewarned of the Japanese grand strategy, now planned to throw his whole air strength against one part of the Japanese armada-the carrier strike force -before Admiral Yamamoto could concentrate overwhelmingly...
...that separate but equal "gymnastic and natatorial" facilities be installed in the new Senate Office Building for Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Though barred from using the Senate's all-male gym and swimming pool, Mrs. Smith, only female in the Senate, pooh-poohed the grand idea: "There is no justification for such an expense." ∙∙∙ A federal judge hung two contempt-of-Congress raps on owlish Playwright Arthur Miller for clamming on who else was present at a pro-Communist writers' palaver in 1947. Maximum sentence: a year in jail...
...foundation and its funds managed to turn out a prodigious amount of work. The surprising thing about it is not that it made so many mistakes but that it made so few. To a far greater extent than any other foundation, it is a problem-solving agency on a grand scale, thinking up its own solutions and paying going institutions and campuses to try them...