Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardly fraternally. First off, when the Arabs saw that Israel had sent an official from its Foreign Ministry, they threatened to withdraw if the Israelis were seated. Conference officials scurried back and forth between the Arabs in the Hotel Excelsior and the Israelis across the square in the Grand, finally got a compromise whereby the Israelis would attend the conference as observers, not as delegates...
Moscow really had little to complain about. Worse charges than a simple little murder have been brought against Russia's masters, and, as acted by old Matinee Idol Melvyn Douglas, Stalin nearly emerged as a grand old man. But New York Times Critic Jack Gould thought the cloak-and-daggerotype-which mixed painstaking research with fantastic guesswork-an insult to a government "with which this country maintains formal, if very strained, diplomatic relations." The Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. agreed. "Smiling Mike" Menshikov called the play "a filthy slander against the Soviet Union . . . incompatible with international standards." With that...
...five, four of whom were rounded up by police and a large force of FBI agents, were indicted by a grand jury just five days after the Sunday dynamiting of the temple...
...There are some who say that we have nothing left to say, that we did all we had to do after 1945," exclaimed Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell, his wiry hair flying, his sharply whittled nose pecking the air with indignation. Before him in Scarborough's Spa Grand Hall, some 1,500 Labor Party delegates sat in somber conclave last week for what all presumed would be their last annual conference before a general election in the spring...
...same sentimental tarpaulin. Old Vaudevillian Wynn, who last year at 70 rose up as a dramatic actor in The Great Man, brings only hints of his legendary Palace clowning to his new home-a simple frame house in a small college town. As a kindly widower raising two grand-daughters-and all sorts of sagacious Cain with the town fathers-Wynn emits enough warmth to heat Buffalo for a month. It is as comedy that the show...