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Word: grandness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worth of 666 grand is beastly for a Christian aspiring to office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 29, 1976 | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...Hiss was aware that the old Woodstock typewriter had been given to the son of a woman who had been the Hiss family maid. Even so, Hiss told the FBI and a federal grand jury that it had probably been sold to a secondhand dealer in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: A Verdict: 'Hiss Has Been Lying' | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...Pusey administration's ability to cull Harvard alumni dollars shows the success of Reynold's formula. Pusey's fundraisers racked up an additional $125 million through the remainder of his term, making a grand total of $207 million. Money from the drives went for the creation of Medical and Law School development offices, the program for Harvard Science (which eventually built the science center), the Pusey Library, and the International Studies building...

Author: By Thomas W. Janes, | Title: Learning to Live with the Squeeze | 3/26/1976 | See Source »

...lots of Coke-buying, cigarett-bumming and flooding the bathroom in this interlude. We weren't even drunk, and we had to explain howthehell Retina the Arab ever acquired her blind-faith blind-drunk opthomalogic condition anyway. Tim came up with a suicide pact right out of the grand old Haemon/Electra Hamlet/Ophelia blues tradition and all we needed was an introduction...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: "I Got Bit by a Seeing-eye Dog" | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...peace gesture the bartender gave me a story along with my Bud. "Six or seven years ago it was," he said, "I bet four bucks on the twin daily double at Rockingham. It came through, only for eleven dollars. Eleven goddam dollars! I know a guy who won five grand on a four-horse birdcage." Al said he was so disgusted he just tore the tickets...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Notes from the Underground | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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