Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheerful, determined Ralph Bunche. Like a solicitous duenna, he herded the delegates in & out of his personal suite, beamed on their cautious handshakes, protected them jealously from the press. He had also personally drafted the agenda of the conference and the armistice preamble, which one Israeli delegate called "a brilliant piece of statesmanship." At week's end, Bunche, still hard at work, was leaving the optimism to his aides. Cried one of them: "I expect to be on my way to Geneva by the middle of next week." Said Bunche: "We still have the most difficult hurdles to take...
Paced by left wingman Fred Koch, the freshmen had no trouble stopping the inexperienced Phillipians, but neither squad showed brilliant hockey form...
...easy to have a good time. An ex-captain of the Polish army got her into the Réseau Interallié, an important network of the Franco-British underground. This Pole, a handsome man named Roman Czerniawsky, had been an intelligence officer. With Mathilde's brilliant help, he was soon feeding the British war office valuable information on the German order of battle. Mathilde was the network's cryptographer. Her fervently admiring comrades called her La Chatte (The Cat), because she moved so noiselessly...
...story pf his forefathers dates back over 2,000 years, to the days following the Carthaginian invasion of the Iberian peninsula. Through the successive invasions of the Romans, Goths, Arabs and Berbers, they survived and grew in number. Under Moslem rule, the Spanish Jews produced an elite of brilliant poets and philosophers, and of wealthy bankers. But in the 14th Century, after most of Spain had been freed from Moslem rule by Spanish Christians, the Jews became a persecuted people...
...King's health bore the name of Dr. Horace Evans, 46-year-old member of the orthodox school. Queen Mary named Evans two years ago as her second physician, next to Weir; ever since, she has been saying loudly that she thinks he is the most brilliant young doctor in London...