Word: grandstand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original Adelita had become matronly Adela Velarde de Perez, a secretary in a Chapultepec Park museum. A delegate to the Congress of Veterans of the Revolution, her only part in the fuss over her young namesake was to watch the parade from a crowded grandstand. It had been a long time since the bashful sergeant died in the streets of Torre...
Last week, on the desolate, shell-pocked plateau outside Caen, scholars from Harvard, Yale and Smith, from Oxford, Liege, and Lausanne, and ambassadors from Belgium, Canada, and Sweden, gathered near a grandstand bedecked with flags. There France's Minister of National Education Yvon Delbos and Minister of Reconstruction Claudius Petit laid the cornerstone of the new university. Later, at a convocation in Caen's movie theater, the only large auditorium left in the city, an honorary degree was awarded to a university president who wasn't there: Columbia's Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose invasion plans...
...plotters system for firing the blast was simple. One of them, stationed behind the grandstand, was assigned to set off the charge by use of batteries. He was to be signalled by two accomplices, who were stationed in the wooden bleachers...
Nine floats, depicting the various phases of Dewey's life, rolled past the grandstand: Dewey building a bobsled at eleven, riding in a Model T ("College Years"), a climactic float showing him seated in the White House. Young men with burnt cork mustaches impersonated him in his adult years...
...Take. His appearance at the stadium was the Progressive Party's biggest rally. Receipts from tickets (50? for bleacher seats to $3.60 for grandstand) totaled $70,000. An hour of whipped-up fund raising produced another $60,000, which ushers carted out of the stadium in baskets. Since expenses cost $40,000 for the evening, the net was $90,000. Before the Stadium rally the Progressive Party's national committee had raised $451,000, spent $670,000. Campaign Manager C. B. Baldwin announced that the party intends to raise and spend $2,500,000 on the campaign...