The goals of the station could drift, however, after that grand effort.

In the old days, this would have been the moment to announce a grand coordinated effort by the world's seven big industrial democracies.

The first phase of this grand effort is to improve West 65th Street.

But it was the look of the pitches, and the calls they got, that lingered long after Maddux's grand effort had gone to waste.

He would make grand efforts to get the people worked up, to encourage them to take the situation into their own hands.

"It was a grand effort," said Mike Smith, his rider.

Unlike Mogaba, he made a grand effort to get beyond pidgin.

Jonathan could see that Dooly was making a grand effort not to cry.

He began talking about the grand, bipartisan, four-president-long effort to put a man on the moon.

Chapter 61 No grand effort had been made to train these troops or clothe them well.