Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Klansmen to back him for Governor. On his official Attorney General stationery, Candidate Patterson wrote to the K.K.K. hate-sheet mailing list quoting "A mutual friend, Mr. R. N. (Bob) Shelton." To anybody on the list, that was enough, for, as every Kluxer knows, Tuscaloosa Rubberworker Shelton is the Grand Dragon...
...Gaulle was well aware, this line of attack had its risks. In the minds of some Frenchmen, De Gaulle's soft sell and his insistence that he must be invited to power reawakened a longstanding suspicion that "le grand Charlie" lacked the capacity to be either an effective democrat or effective dictator. "After all," mused a dentist in Chateau-Thierry, "De Gaulle had the country in his hands in 1945 and couldn't run it. We need somebody who is better at politics." But on the minds of many Frenchman, De Gaulle's tactic of moderation seemed...
...shaggy crew cut somehow suggesting his long pre-Army locks, Private Elvis Presley struck a nonregulation pose with a favorite off-duty companion, nubile Starlet Anita Wood. For the record, Elvis had the camp P.I.O. issue a denial that he and Anita would marry, then, in a grand finale to his eight weeks of basic training, loped off to the Fort Hood, Texas bivouac area for a hard week of marching and infantry maneuvers-and nights in a pup tent instead of evening passes...
...Civil Aeronautics Board's 6.6% interim fare increase were starting to show up in airline earnings. For the first three months of 1958, the nation's beleaguered carriers operated at a loss of $2,900,000, even though almost all lines increased their business-to a grand total of $345 million. Nonetheless, in March, which closed out the quarter, many lines began to cash in on better weather plus the fare increase: United, for instance, reported its first profitable month of the year...
Delusion of Exile. It is a tribute to the quality of Bastide's writing, which comes through finely in translation, that from two such wisps he is able to evoke the living heart of Paris. His is not the grand or the obvious Paris of the boulevards or of politics that obsesses Humes: it is the Paris of cranks, little streets, odd churches, eccentric people. Bastide's ironic message seems to be: a disorder of the spirit, whether worldly, as in the case of the Russian, or religious, as in the case of the Swede, is equally damnable...