Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bales of It. Dr. Milton Krop was not the brightest penny that ever came out of the gutter, but for once in his life he thought fast: with that heart of his, he could hardly last more than two years, but he was still young enough to have a little fun before the finish. Fun costs money. Well, the girl would have money, bales of it, as soon as the estate was settled. He looked her over. "Hair skinned back, big nose. Skin color like a mushroom . . . nothing clothes." He thought: "What have I got to lose...
...brightest prospects for a long-term boom are in central residential systems that provide year-round heating and cooling of houses. Installed cost: $1,000 for a six-room General Electric unit, v. $1,500 in 1952. Last year 130,000 central units were installed in U.S. homes, up 68.5% in one year. This year, central-unit sales are expected to leap another 23% to 160,000 units. Moreover, some 25 million U.S. homeowners who have central heating plants are potential customers for built-in airconditioning...
...Minnesota miracle was indeed a devastating blow to the Democratic-Farmer-Labor leadership. Before the primary, the Minnesota organization was considered the brightest jewel in the new Democratic crown. But Humphrey and Freeman had committed themselves fully to Stevenson, and the defeat left their machine in the ditch...
...were dragged out of their home and whisked away in a green Citroen to be shot near the village of Co Bi in the high, jagged mountains of the Chaine Annamatique. "I remember my brother Khoi," says Diem, who fled into hiding at the time. "He was the brightest son of our family of twelve, a tall, handsome man. The welfare of the people was his life's work." But the people's thanks, under the new Communist regime, consisted only in tossing his unblessed body into an irrigation ditch...
Mencken was an editor of surpassing skill, a journalist of scintillating brilliance, a rare humorist and a savage critic. For years he was the brightest star on the Baltimore Sunpapers. He was the forward lance in the march of American letters from John Fox Jr. (The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come) to Sinclair Lewis, helped kill off much of the trash in American writing. Many of the best U.S. writers of the century (Lewis, Dreiser, Cather, Pound. Fitzgerald) were discovered or trundled by Mencken in his happy days as co-editor (with George Jean Nathan) of the Smart...