Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the New York city council, in a crackpot mood, voted 23-1 to appoint a committee to study secession once again, this time not from the grand old Union but from New York State. Reason: Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Republican-run state legislature were, in the words of Brooklyn Democrat Joseph T. Sharkey, "robbing us." The point: New York City contributes roughly 50% of the state budget, gets back only 38% of state expenditures on services. But one lone Republican, standing against a house divided, threw in an argument that stung the most ardent secessionists. Said...
...Crimson "has a sufficiently successful season," meaning victory at the EARC sprints, Love reported it is likely that the heavyweights will obtain support to go to the Henley regatta in an effort to obtain the Grand Challenge Cup, which the Crimson last...
...girls as a group are a bouncy crew, with Dulcie the bounciest, Fay (Abigail Liggett) and Nancy (Alexandra Hilford) lively enough, and Maisie (Margaretha Walk) not quite with it though she tries very hard. The boys--Robert Hatfield, David Kopelman, Norman Fox and Herbert Parsons--have a grand time mostly playing themselves and dancing with the girls; but on the whole they failed to impress...
...York's Moose Skowron paced the Yankees with a grand slam home run as they crushed Baltimore 13 to 3. Chicago's White Sox also continued undefeated by shutting out Kansas City...
...case ended only when the estate was wiped out by inflation. The multiplicity of lawsuits may be partially explained by a U.S. attorney who, 20 years ago, set himself the task of adding up all the laws on the statute books of federal and state governments. His grand total...