Word: grande
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...went to an academic dinner not long ago at which the subject was friendship. It might have been called something grand like "The Metaphysics of Friendship." The discussion ascended to a high altitude. The air got a little thin...
...Babe Ruth was asked to justify his new annual salary, $80,000, which he was paid to hit baseballs a long way, in light of the fact that the President of the United States was making a mere 75 grand. "I had a better year than he did," Ruth replied. He wasn't wrong, certainly, but the carping continued...
...dimensional Jose Canseco became the game's salary king at $4.7 million in 1990; disbelief when pitcher Kevin Brown signed a seven-year, $105 million deal in '98. Observers from Bob Costas to Joe Blow said the sky had fallen, hell had frozen over, pigs had flown, and the grand old game was dead...
...could be a grand renovation, with a nationalized ballot and of course a national network of databanks for voter registration. Flawless records with up-to-the-minute information, courtesy of the DMV. An unshakable voting system worthy of the richest, most innovative nation on this earth...
...April. But he won the U.S. Open by a record 15 strokes, the British Open by eight and the PGA in a playoff, becoming the first to win three of four majors in a season since Ben Hogan in 1953, and the youngest ever to complete a career grand slam...