Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brightest spot in the Democratic column was the victory in Rhode Island of promising, 43-year-old J. (for James) Howard McGrath, onetime U.S. Solicitor General and youngest governor in his state's history. A half-dozen others of the new crop of Senators are still in their 40s. Just 50 is New York's dogged, fair-minded Irving Ives, swept in by the Dewey landslide. Oldsters of the Group are 67-year-old Ed Martin and Vermont's bald, bespectacled Ralph Flanders, 65, a liberal-minded Republican Yankee businessman who had the support of the C.I.O...
From his excursion to the Paris Peace Conference, handsome Foreign Minister Dr. Karl Gruber returned to Vienna with the undimmed conviction that he was Austria's brightest young statesman. About the first thing he encountered, back in Austria, was a band of irate Tyrolese in leather shorts, who called him a traitor and spat on him (because he had agreed to South Tyrol's so-called autonomy under Italian tutelage). Gruber knocked down one of his assailants, but the homecoming was spoiled...
...these slight novels of his nonage there is little promise of Shaw's latter-day achievements (Candida, Pygmalion, over 40 other plays). Yet, in retrospect, they show horizonal flashes of the approaching storm-the brightest literary lifetime...
...sorts of people have found the Current Affairs Test engaging-as a challenge to their knowledge of the news, and as a contest in which it is not easy to get a perfect score. Once, the warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N.Y., gave the test to 200 of his brightest inmates under the most durable of honor systems. They averaged, according to the warden, 86 per cent. That's not bad, as the millions of TIME readers, students, and others who have taken the tests, can testify...
...strong. Barrel-chested Smiley Quick, public links champ, caught the crowd's fancy. He wiggled his wide hips before lacing into every shot, but his woods and irons fell far short of easy-swinging Ted Bishop's. On the greens, 5 ft. 5 in. Quick did his brightest stuff. When he sinks a short putt, he usually dives for the ball just as it drops in. On hole No. 4, he chipped the ball from 60 feet, ran after it all the way to the cup; it sank for a birdie...