Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hodges crossed the path of another man of destiny in 1936, when he was assigned to the Philippines as General Douglas MacArthur's plans and operations officer. On MacArthur's staff was Lieut. Colonel Dwight Eisenhower, rated one of the brightest of the Army's brighter young men. Eisenhower, too, made a note of Hodges as a man who knew how to get things done...
Palau. The same day that MacArthur struck, and three months to the day after Saipan, Admiral Nimitz' marines attacked, 500 miles due east of Mindanao. Their target: the Palau Archipelago (five principal islands, 100 smaller ones). Palau was the brightest star (and capital) of Japan's vast mandated empire. "The spigot of our oil barrel," the Japs called it, when their ships left port to tap the great oil reserves of the stolen Indies...
...epidemic has attacked a group of Midwestern states-Ohio, Indiana, Michigan-which normally have been relatively immune. Brightest spot was the South. In North Carolina the disease seemed to be subsiding. Texas, hardest hit in the nation last year, has been singularly free...
...world's brightest diplomatic stars, Turkey's Foreign Minister Numan Rifat Menemencioglu (pronounced approximately many-men'-chaw-glue), went into eclipse last week. The latest play in Turkey's shrewd neutrality game, which he had managed skillfully since 1942, forced him to retire...
Hope into Turmoil. When Rios started his term, he was the brightest hope of South American democracy. But he did not push the urgent reforms demanded by the Leftist coalition which put him in power, showed more liking for conservatives than for Communists who had given him powerful support. He lost the confidence of Chile's Popular Front, failed to gain the complete confidence of his new friends on the Right. Result: turmoil. Rios, without a political majority, found it difficult to govern at all. Chile's numerous ills, notably including a rampant inflation, grew worse & worse...