Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Daily Telegraph: "Every sentence proclaimed the President's absorption with what he now clearly regards as his remaining mission in life-the creation of a true and lasting peace . . . The whole tenor of his inaugural address suggests that in the next four years we shall see this grand design persistently pursued. This dedication should be an inspiration to the world...
George Magoffin Humphrey, 66, in four years as Secretary of the Treasury not only has shaped the grand design of Eisenhower economic policy, but is now the unquestioned strong man of the Cabinet, and one of Ike's closest advisers. Hurnphrey sees the President frequently, talks to him more frequently by telephone. Ike likes Humphrey's blunt honesty and his ability to make decisions in any field. When Secretary Dulles was stricken in the midst of the Suez crisis, the President instinctively turned to Humphrey for counsel, and Ike's own confidence in Humphrey radiates through...
...citizen in 1947, was ostensibly a respectable businessman, dealing in animal hair and bristles. Under cover, according to U.S. Attorney Paul M. Williams, he was a Soviet superspy who "replaced" Vassily Zubilin as "a dominant figure in the espionage ring." In advance of presenting the case to the grand jury, the Justice Department declined to specify where and how the Sobles or Albam had spied. But at week's end the FBI whisked Albam away from his colleagues in the federal prison, and the rumor spread that he was telling...
...placed his bombs on Con Edison property, but too many of them went unfound and unexploded. So in recent months he took to driving into Manhattan in the sleek, $4,000 imported Daimler thoughtfully provided him by his sisters. He planted the bombs in such public places as Grand Central Station, the Empire State Building and New York Public Library, followed them up with carefully worded, literate letters to the newspapers, cryptically signed "F.P." (for "Fair Play," he explained). George had planted 47 bombs; scores of crackpots sent the cops on fruitless chases for imaginary missiles, and news-hungry...
...small nightly crowds, he shook his head doubtfully and saw little hope that his patrons would pick up some of the germs that had infected him long ago. For bike racing, he says, "is a disease. Once it's got you, nothing stops you." He has grand plans for future races in Chicago, St. Louis and New York, but there is a lot of pedaling ahead before the six-day whirl to nowhere comes back from the limbo that has swallowed marathon dances, flagpole sitting, bunion derbies and other rowdy remnants of sport's daffier days...