Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal action involves divvying up 1.8 million acres of disputed grazing and farm land in northeast Arizona. At the heart of the controversy is a Navajo settlement in what is supposed to be Hopi territory: Big Mountain, a juniper-dotted ridge about 50 miles east of Grand Canyon National Park. It is a place of endless sagebrush and soaring golden eagles, undergirded by rich seams of coal and uranium, where a band of perhaps 1,000 or so Navajo has vowed to resist relocation. "To move away is to disappear," says Pauline Whitesinger, an elderly resister with an easy smile...
Anonymous pain vs. heroic pizazz, a crucible vs. a crowd pleaser. A low, labyrinthine, long-abandoned Government compound and a high, bright, popular symbol. The place where the undesirables among the huddled masses were culled out and sent packing; the monument that summarizes in one grand, gilded-age stroke a nation's noblest intentions. The two islands make a compelling yin- and-yankee pair. Alone, neither the Mother of Exiles nor the Island of Tears fairly represents the American story. But together, they tell something like the whole truth...
...thought education was not a top priority for Coach Driesell. Marshall claimed that the coach had urged members of the team to be careful in talking to authorities about drugs and Bias' death. Driesell denied the charge and asked his longtime attorney, Edward Bennett Williams, to represent him during grand-jury hearings this week...
Consider, for example, the sad story of Warner LeRoy's attempt to help rebuild Manhattan's Bryant Park, a nine-acre urban oasis now inhabited largely by drug peddlers. Almost four years ago, New York City authorities announced a grand rehabilitation scheme that would feature the construction of a glass- walled cafe-restaurant. LeRoy, who operates the city-owned Tavern on the Green in Central Park, offered to build the restaurant with $12 million of his own money. "That will help make the park a great, wonderful public gathering place," said LeRoy, "like the Via Veneto or the Piazza...
...sour piece of rubber or peel apart a burger in order to extract the urethane substance like a pair of dirty diapers. Millions and millions of Americans would share in the jubilation. For the few who actually liked the pickles, they would be making a minor sacrifice for a grand cause...