Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rumors swirled around his desert kingdom, King Saud sulked in seclusion in the private quarters of his vast, chandelier-festooned palace at Riyadh. He stopped presiding over the grand luncheons and dinners served daily in the palace dining hall to visitors and hangers-on. The loudspeakers, which customarily bellow the latest news during mealtimes, were silenced. The lord of the world's richest oil sands was so strapped for cash that his yacht Monsour had been seized in Genoa for nonpayment of an Italian architect's $600,000 fee. He was under intense pressure from royal family members...
...flicker of new-style programs to come. In Texas, and in upstate New York, where Basilio is a popular local hero, enterprising matchmakers put on live preliminaries before they dimmed the house lights, hooked up projectors, placed screens in the ring, and tuned in the main bout. Only in Grand Rapids, Mich., and Orlando, Fla., did equipment fail, and force promoters to return their take. When all the receipts were counted, the TV take of $1,500,000 gave Basilio and Robinson each more than $100,000 to add to their $81,869.76 Chicago paychecks...
...rare rebuff to tradition, every horse in the field cleared the first jump of England's Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. But at the halfway mark, only 19 of the 31 starters were still running, and at the finish there were only seven. Even Mr. What, the tough little Irish gelding that had taken all the other jumps cleanly, almost came a cropper at the last hedge. But Mr. What kept his balance and won the richest Grand National ever ($46,858) by 30 lengths. In second place: last year's third-place horse, Tiberetta...
...process, unfortunately, he converted Faulkner's county into a community almost as corny as Al Capp's Dogpatch, and reduced all the poetry of degradation to the customary commercial serving of fresh ham and pot likkah. And he replaced the emotional ingredients of The Hamlet's grand, grotesque romance-half arsenic, half cantharide-with a conventional love story that is at least as sweet as Coca-Cola...
...Days has fine sketches of World War II and a sharply drawn portrait of the fallen Ro wandering the streets of Havana and maundering of the days when "there were all the fish in the sea to catch, all the whisky in all the pubs to drink, all the grand guys in the world to be friends with." There is a certain poignancy, however vague, about Ro, a man out of step with his time and himself, reduced to dropping yesterday's names...