Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixty-one students, five of whom were not in attendance at Harvard during the fall term, failed to register. Late registrants must make their presence known with the Registrar's office and unless they concoct brilliant excuses they face disciplinary action, most probably in the form of a fine, at the Dean's Office...
...summing up his case for the defense, Cross maintained yesterday that Dr. Van Waters' 16-year administration at the Framingham reformatory had gained her a national reputation for brilliant and progressive work in penology...
...Yenan. Communist bigwig Chou Enlai, in charge of Yenan's public relations, remained in the big city as liaison officer until negotiations broke down. Chou is the smoothest, most urbane of the Communist leaders; in school he was famous for his female impersonations in theatricals, his most brilliant role being that of a sexy peasant wench in a play called One Dollar...
...followers learned to obey him unquestioningly in the bloody hunger riots of 1938, which he organized with his Oxford-educated cousin, brilliant, socialist Barrister Norman Washington Manley, K.C. At rallies, Busta had only to raise his hand to get either wild cheering or deadly silence. "If there is anyone infallible," he once told his followers, "it is only me-only...
Nobody in The Bribe seems to be having much fun at it except Laughton, who appears to relish his juicy cut of ham. There is a brilliant display of fiesta fireworks and a convincingly real sequence of deep-sea fishing (Taylor v. a handsome spiked marlin). For those who enjoy Laughton, fireworks, or big-game fishing, The Bribe may be worth a look...