Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contest was as strictly controlled as the production of a Chateau Lafite. The nine French judges, drawn from an oenophile's Who's Who, included such high priests as Pierre Tari, secretary-general of the Association des Grands Cms Classes, and Raymond Oliver, owner of Le Grand Vefour restaurant and doyen of French culinary writers. The wines tasted were transatlantic cousins-four white Burgundies against six California Pinot Chardonnays and four Grands Crus Chateaux reds from Bordeaux against six California Cabernet Sauvignons...
...wrinkle developed in the four-month-old investigation of curruption in Cambridge city politics last Friday when a Middlesex County Grand Jury issued 15 indictments against four men accused of violating the state's election laws last November...
...tampering should be contested in a criminal, rather than a civil court. "There's absolutely no reason why it should be," he said. He added that there was "no question in his mind" that there were political overtones behind the placement of the trial in a criminal court. "The Grand Jury no longer provides a protection of the citizen against the state," he said, citing his client's inability to appear on his own behalf before the month-long election inquest...
...result--a sort of grand multi-media functionally kinetic thesis--was a 27-student global tour, subsidized by Jaeger, led by Edgar Snow, author of "Red Star Over China." Though the first year's trip didn't get into China, its course impressed enough educators (especially those who grant academic credit to students) to warrant continuation...
Impressive Wins. Her problems were not new ones. In Turin, the world's best woman race driver, Italy's Leila Lombardi, 33, who competes on the Grand Prix circuit, recalled last week that "only in the United States have I recently encountered real prejudice. Why do American men say, 'No, you're out of it because you're a woman.' So many American race drivers behave like male chauvinists instead of men who practice a sport...