Word: grandes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...county grand jury began hearings on the case and U.S. Attorney Robert Tieken checked up on possible income tax evasions, blasé Chicagoans and their newspapers quickly lost interest. In the major leagues of Illinois and Cook County scandal. $444,000 is a minor-league steal. But Treasurer Paschen, firing two suspects with more to go. sighed like a man just missed by lightning: "I'm deeply shocked that such a thing could have gone on in the office. I knew nothing of it, of course...
Gateway to Justice. Last week, after a thorough restudy of the evidence, Public Prosecutor Cesare Palminteri marched into the Renaissance courtroom on Venice's Grand Canal-and demolished his own case. Anna Maria Caglio, he said flatly, was a liar-"a perfidious woman intent on vengeance and dedicated to mud-slinging." The fact was, declared Palminteri, that "there is absolutely no evidence, direct or indirect, against Piero Piccioni." He hinted broadly that the police would want to talk some more with Uncle Giuseppe ("What is he hiding?"). Then he asked that the charges be dropped against Piccioni...
Most of the country singers hailing out of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry expect to peddle their wares to the corn belt.and let the pop world go by. Although the kind of music they sing on the granddaddy of the country radio shows has often been taken over by pop singers and made into hits (Tennessee Waltz, You Are My Sunshine), few country singers have made the pop charts on their own. But in the wake of Elvis Presley (not considered genuine country by the connoisseurs), two Nashville favorites have gone to the fore in the pop world...
PROMOTER BENJACK CAGE, boss and founder of multimillion dollar ICT Insurance Co. that crashed and caused heavy losses to policyholders (TIME Feb. 18) was indicted for embezzling $500,000 from ICT. Dallas grand jury charged that Cage, who fled to Brazil, used funds to buy stock, which he later transferred to his own management company...
When he is not being hysterical. Hero Jimmy gets to the heart of what is the matter: "There aren't any good, brave causes left. If the big bang does come, and we all get killed off, it won't be in aid of the oldfashioned, grand design. It'll just be for the Brave New-nothing-very-much-thank-you." Says Jimmy's mistress of Jimmy: "He thinks he's still in the middle of the French Revolution. And that's where he ought to be, of course...