Word: grandes
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...signed a document to acknowledge the sentence. Rojas automatically lost his monthly pension as a former President, his rank as lieutenant general, and his proud chest of trinkets, including the Order of Boyacá, the Military Cross, the Order of Admiral Padilla, the Police Star (in the degree of Grand Extraordinary Civic Star), the Cross of Aeronautical Merit, the Order of Sanitary Merit and the Order of June 13 (created by Rojas to commemorate the day he took power in 1953). The next step is up to the Colombia Supreme Court, which is studying the evidence and could...
...false teeth as an inducement), gave them lessons in writing simple Swedish (which is not at all simple). He kept his sharp eye out for the big news beat, and on May 7, 1945 he found the biggest of the year-the surrender of Germany, broadcast by Grand Admiral Doenitz and picked up by Expressen's radio monitors. Nycop had been hopefully holding his presses for the news, now says that his Expressen became the world's first paper to carry the story, by rolling out an edition just 22 minutes after the announcement...
...guilty, Leon Trotsky, whose real name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein, in this novel is called Victor Rostov. But there is no doubt that the book is about the chess-playing, intellectual Commissar of War (1918-25) who lost his long struggle for power with Stalin. Trotsky became the grand heretic of a religion whose god is the state; it was his peculiar hell that he never ceased to believe in the religion that had made him its principal devil...
ALEXANDER GUTERMA has been indicted by a federal grand jury, charged with conspiracy to defraud by failing to file financial reports on his F. L. Jacobs Co. (TIME, Feb. 23). Meantime, a U.S. district court named two trustees to reorganize Jacobs under federal bankruptcy...
...Author Durrell's weaknesses would still be strengths in most other novelists, and readers of Mountolive will be sharply aware that they are encountering an acute intelligence pursuing a grand design. The book ends with a rise of tension as Nessim's brother, a naive savage armed with a bullwhip and a Messianic impulse, is brutally slain. Faithful to his belief that "truth is what most contradicts itself," Author Durrell fails to be explicit about the murderer. It may be Nessim, Justine, or even agents of King Farouk's lethargic government. Presumably, this cliffhanger conclusion will...