Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the serious business was over, Moscow cavorted merrily in the brilliant sunshine, beside lakes of flowers and tremendous red-festooned portraits of Soviet leaders. And the music was grand...
...soon pummeling the writings of Henry Robinson Luce, editor of the Hotchkiss Literary Monthly. Their friendly competition turned to collaboration on the Yale Daily News, where Hadden was chairman and Luce managing editor. On graduation their classmates picked Hadden as "most likely to succeed" and Luce as "most brilliant" of their class...
...TIME'S editor, Luce its business manager; later, by agreement, they switched jobs. Editor Hadden liked to liven things up by scoffing in print at advertisers' wares, tartly tell his hard-to-come-by readers in the letters columns: "Let Subscriber Goodkind mend his talk." A brilliant and painstaking editor, he emitted yelps of delight at a writer's bright phrases, and despairing grunts when his plump red pencil (a special batlike one, three-eighths of an inch thick) had to be used to jab life into dull ones. He insisted...
Ager arrived in time to play in the doubles, and, pairing with Bullard, faced Seixas and Charlie Taylor in a brilliant match won by the Tarheels...
...brilliant, hard hitting game of Seixas somewhat obscures Carolina's number two man, Taylor. But Taylor has won 36 straight sets without a loss in his first three collegiate matches this season...