Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...object of the dinner was to honor the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, who had been the target lately of some salvos fired by Columnist Drew Pearson. When Argentina's Juan Perón sent along a medal for General Vaughan, "a brilliant soldier in the glorious Army of the United States," Pearson thought thegeneral's acceptance of it out of keeping with President Truman's championing of democractic principles. The members of the R.O.A. thought otherwise. To affirm their confidence in General Vaughan, they presented him with a scroll naming him "Minute...
...scarcely enough bounce is left in it to shake up an archdeacon. Worse, it is frequently toned down to s.o.b. ... In Standard Italian there are no less than forty congeners of son-of-a-bitch, and each and every one of them is more opprobrious, more brilliant, more effective...
...Brilliant acrobatics gave Dan Rogers an unchallenged triumph for the West Pointers in the dive, as Win Briggs nipped Army's Frank Howard by three tenths of a point to take second place and leave the Cadets six points ahead at the approximate half-way mark...
...varsity hockey team turned on the pressure four goals and 28 minutes too late at the Arena last night, so the visiting Dartmouth Indians eked out a 4 to 3 win. Virtually the only reason why the Crimson second and third period surge failed was the brilliant goal play of Green captain Dick Desmond...
...period, Dr. Van Waters had a free hand in running the reformatory. She treated inmates as students, not criminals; she slowly reintroduced them to society by means of broad indenturing in outside employment, outside education courses, and supervised visits to nearby towns. Her results were brilliant. As many former inmates testified, Dr. Van Waters had literally saved their lives. And as many penologists testified, Dr. Van Waters had done a valuable job of pioneering, and created an inspiring example at Framingham for rehabilitation work all over the world...