Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young Costa-Rican mother holds her first child with pride-before a simple house made grand through her own decorations. An aging Gaucho upon his horse pauses, surrounded by the Argentine plains, in a moment of quiet dignity. From these photos we see that the photographer genuinely cares, and viewing these pictures...
...haven for that dreadful freshman year. I was assigned three roommates and figured. I still don't know why, that there would be two singles and a double to house four of us. It wasn't such a dumb assumption. The room was costing my parents well over two grand. Besides, I had seen Brideshead Revisted and figured rooming at Harvard could not be drastically different from that at Oxford, the butler excluded, of course...
Edmund Perry was fatally wounded by a white New York police officer, Lee Van Houten, 24, whose two-year record on the force was unblemished. Last week amid a storm of community outrage and accusations of police misconduct and racism, a Manhattan grand jury cleared Van Houten of any wrongdoing. The panel also charged Perry's older brother, Jonah, 19, a second-year engineering student at Cornell University, with assault and attempted robbery in the scuffle with Van Houten that resulted in Edmund's death. Neither Edmund nor Jonah, who had also gone to a tony prep school (Westminster...
...learned of his brother's shooting via a neighborhood drug dealer who had heard it on the street. Offering at first to help police locate the dealer, Jonah changed his mind on the advice of a family lawyer and, further, declined to testify on his own behalf before the grand jury last week...
...long-standing promise. In September 1942, Fujita flew two raids over Brookings in a tiny seaplane, dropping incendiary bombs in an unsuccessful effort to ignite the surrounding thick forests. Twenty years later, the Brookings Junior Chamber of Commerce invited Fujita, by then a prospering businessman, to serve as honorary grand marshal of the town's azalea festival. Fujita was so moved by the gesture that he vowed to reciprocate by having local youngsters visit Japan, but his business subsequently failed, leaving him penniless. The industrious Fujita spent more than two decades saving the roughly $10,000 that will...