Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the hoods were sitting as judges and jurors in the trial of one of their own, Carmine Lombardozzi, who had apparently tried to muscle in on some of his peers' rackets. But nearly all the barbecuers, called one by one before county and state grand juries, before congressional committees and Government agencies, kept silence. On that silence Project Green was based...
...record falsification, payroll padding, fraud, perjury and contempt. Georgia is out of pocket an estimated $10 million. Last week, the rare crime of embracery* was added. In Atlanta, Griffin-favored Tractor Dealer H. (for Herbert) Candler Jones, 45, was convicted for offering a $10,000 bribe to a grand-jury foreman...
...good. But then the moviemakers feel obliged to give their black Adam a white Eve (Inger Stevens), and all at once the grand drama of humanity's survival collapses into an irrelevant wrangle about racial discrimination that has no more real significance, under the circumstances of the story, than a hotfoot in hell. Adam and Eve fall in love, but Adam refuses to accept the fact. He cannot begin a new world because he cannot forget the old; he cannot let social injustice die with the society that fostered it. At this point the moviemakers introduce a particularly amiable...
...grown to $20,000 without his putting in another penny. With his nest egg bigger than he had ever hoped, Benny has used his salary and the returns from the sale of his house to buy a $30,000 home, plans to take his wife on a grand tour of Europe...
...Fair Lady cribs from Shaw, West Side Story cribs from Shakespeare, and The Music Man cribs from a silo of Iowa corn, making these three musicals grand larceny and great entertainment...