Word: grand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fear of Fear. Nehru delivered a major address at a dinner given jointly by the Foreign Policy Association, the India League of America, the East and West Association, and the American Institute of Pacific Relations, in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom. Said he: "People talk about India's desire for leadership in Asia. We have no desire for leadership . . . [But] whether we want to or not ... we have to play an important role . . . There is no halfway house . . . Either India makes good [or] she just fades away...
After a six-week visit to the U.S., including a look at Texas, French Fashion Creator Jacques Path sailed for home. He opined that U.S. women have "a grand sense of elegance," but sometimes overdress. This, he added quickly, does not apply to Texas women, who not only dress simply but are also beautiful...
...when he began designing the first postwar Studebaker, Loewy decided that current cars were too bulky, too laden with chromium "spinach and schmalz," and had too many blind spots for the driver. What he wanted was slimness, grace and better visibility. To his staff he mapped the grand strategy: "Weight is the enemy . . . Whatever saves weight saves cost. The car must look fast, whether in motion or stationary. I want it to look as if it were leaping forward; I want 'built-in' motion ... If it looks 'stopped' it is a dead pigeon ... I want...
...became acting mayor. The city's charter provides that the chairman of the city council be mayor in case the elected mayor's indisposition, but in such a confused state was the city of Boston, that the city council chairman was also being held on under indictment by a grand jury, charged with graft. Thus, Hynes, the City Clerk, became mayor and was given, in addition, a life tenure on the City Clerk...
...usual, the Americans ran into snags. One student stayed a little toe late in the Colosseum, and found himself locked in for the night--he only got out by dint of a great deal of shouting and pounding at the gate. Another unfortunate fell into the Grand Canal in Venice...