Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brittle. Even so, trains came into Grand Central Station as much as seven hours late, the Queen Elizabeth's sailing was delayed twelve hours, and 1,300 Brooklyn homes had their supplies of heating gas cut off. In Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Detroit and many another city, industrial gas and power supplies were slashed. Detroit's auto plants laid off workers by the thousands. In St. Paul, the cold halted construction work on an ice palace being built for a winter carnival, opening Jan. 31. At 20° below, the ice was too brittle to be cut into uniform blocks...
...year-old Queen Elizabeth had been the Grand Fleet's flagship in World War I. Aboard her, the Germans surrendered their Navy in 1918. During World War II, she almost met an ignominious end. In 1942, as she lay moored in the shallows of Alexandria harbor, Italian "human torpedoes" got in under her, attached time charges, blew great holes in her hull. Patched in the U.S., she finished out the war in the East Indies...
...grand sachem, lord paramount and international president of the American Federation of Musicians, Caesar Petrillo has an imperial disdain for convention, and, when confronted by bacteria, he will stop at nothing. He roars like a wounded lion if a photographer lays a camera down near him; he believes microbes use cam eras as invasion barges to leap...
...While instructing a grand jury at Columbia, S.C., Circuit Judge J. Henry Johnson declared: "I am ... thoroughly convinced that no man who lives north of the Mason-Dixon line, be he Democrat or Republican, is a genuine friend of the South...
...grand, good soldier ever made a good politician," generalized General Jonathan Wamwright. He particularized. Eisenhower and MacArthur "are fine soldiers," said he, "and I think it would be a mistake for them to get into politics...