Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nikita Khrushchev and Nikita Khrushchev saw the U.S. All hopeful predictions about relaxing tensions to the contrary, the meeting turned out to be one of the grand confrontations of the cold war and of all time...
...driver's seat of the Teamsters Union, he need not fear for the future. Hoffa's predecessor, fat, easy-to-shove Dave Beck, faces trial on a charge of violating the Taft-Hartley Act and is sweating out appeals on convictions for income-tax evasion and grand larceny. But Seattle's Citizen Beck is too busy making money and enjoying life to worry too much about his problems...
...some secret splendor within herself." Come debt or hunger, she would go to the theater, taking her nephew with her, and when there wasn't even a quarter for the gas meter, she would read her novels by candlelight, teaching Moss that the mind can be its own grand and inviolable theater...
...regarded rather like being named Windsor in England." Will she take the baby-faced lad, or will she marry the devoted gentleman with vaults of gold? Sanders gracefully steps aside to allow her to come to her decision, but Tab leans forward again-in Central Park, Staten Island and Grand Central Station-and displays those bald eyeballs. Meekly Sophia once more obeys the scriptwriter. Tab takes possession, like a tot getting behind the wheel of a Thunderbird...
...window-breakers. Then, hell broke loose. More windows were smashed, Quincy was hanged in effigy, handwriting appeared on the wall in the chapel saying "A Bone for Old Quin to Pick," and the flag of rebellion flew over Holworthy. Quincy himself testified for three days before the Concord grand jury, the only three times he missed morning prayers while at Harvard...