Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steamed across the Atlantic last week, the majestic white passenger liner evoked memories of such grand old ships as the Queen Mary and the Normandie. Yet this $200 million craft, built at a French shipyard during the past 21 months, is very much a space-age creation. Cantilevered from her single smokestack, 14 stories above the waterline, is a flying cocktail lounge. Inside the ship, an atrium five decks high forms a main lobby, complete with glass elevators and towering fountains. There is nothing modest about the new ship, from her name, Sovereign of the Seas, freshly painted in bright...
...tourists. "There is no contradiction between feeling sad because you don't know how to help and being frightened because one of the people asking for help may hit you on the head," says Michael Zeik, 64, who runs a gauntlet of beggars at New York City's Grand Central Terminal on his frequent visits to Manhattan from his suburban home...
...noblesse oblige. Where he grew up, the name Babbitt seldom reminded anyone of the bourgeois conformist of the Sinclair Lewis novel; rather, in Flagstaff, Ariz., it meant roughly what Rockefeller does in New York. Arriving a century ago in Flagstaff, a logging and ranching town south of the Grand Canyon, five Babbitt brothers turned a modest grubstake into a mercantile empire. As Bruce came of age, his family owned the grocery, drugstore and icehouse; a lumberyard and sawmill; and owned or controlled nearly a million acres of ranchland. They were landlords to half the town and employers to half...
Answers were lacking, McKay explained, because Wallach, Chinn and London had refused to testify before the grand jury McKay had summoned. McKay said he was suspending his investigation of Meese until the New York City prosecutions are concluded. While all three men are expected to deny the charges, last week's indictments may induce one of them to end his silence...
Meese may be merely an innocent victim; he has testified before the McKay grand jury five times, answering all questions put to him. Nathan Lewin, one of Meese's personal lawyers, put the rosiest possible hue on McKay's announcement, saying he was "gratified" that the "most thorough investigation ever conducted of the personal finances of a public official . . . had been concluded at this time favorably to Attorney General Meese." Meese's patron, the President, once again asserted his confidence in his Attorney General...