Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Troeger Grand...
...time she left the shipyard in Jeffersonville, Ind., last month, the Queen had cost $23.5 million. She has seven decks, with 218 staterooms tastefully appointed in muted grays and browns. There is a swimming pool, a sauna, a movie theater, a two-deck dining room and a grand salon. Originally the Queen was intended to be a much closer copy of her predecessors but, as one river regular explained, "steel and asbestos don't lend themselves to curlicues and steamboat gothic...
...devastatingly effective way of keeping people in line. Yet in many Communist nations this is simply not necessary: the torture chamber, anti-Communists argue, is countrywide. All-powerful, ever vigilant party apparatus, supported by huge secret police forces, make opposition almost impossible; thus torture on a grand scale is superfluous...
Last year White wrote on the growth of bureaucracy and snatched the $1000 grand prize. He explained that last year's entry was "tighter" and more in tune with the judges' philosophies...
Four of the five starting members of a Pennsylvania high school state championship basketball team come together at their coach's house to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their greatest victory. They reunite in a grand show of cameraderie and jock-ish affection, but the strains between them and the failures of their individual lives begin to show quickly...