Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour out from Hanoi, Colonel D. blacked out the plane. A few minutes later, Sergeant K., hunched over a radio set, reported: "We have contact with Dienbienphu." Deep down below us, a brilliant white light floated in the air for a few seconds, then died out-perhaps a Communist mortar flare. Luciole started weaving on a gentle, irregular pattern...
Written with eloquent precocity by a twelve-year-old Mozart, this one-act masterpiece is packed with charm and freshness. Its story of lovers' jealousy, scheming and reunion is spiritedly sung, and Soprano Hollweg is brilliant...
...Luftwaffe general, Smiling Al Kesselring lacked the dash of a Rommel, the Prussian rigor of Von Rundstedt, or the inventive flair of a Guderian; yet he fashioned a career almost as brilliant as theirs. At war's start he commanded a single air fleet in Poland, later bossed all German air forces in North Africa, took charge of the Mediterranean theater in the slow German retreat up the boot of Italy, and ended the war as commander in chief in the West. As told in Kesselring's foot-slogging style, much of this story borders...
...America, Stassen's defeat in the Greek Ship squabble, the humiliation of the Pentagon, and the disruption of the State Department, the Oppenheimer episode seems part and parcel of the process by which the government, through one branch or another, has stultified its most vital agencies and suppressed many brilliant and thoughtful...
...postwar chaos and corruption, Greek politics finally achieved a state of equilibrium when two widely disparate personalities teamed up in Athens. One was resolute old Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, the war hero who was elected Premier at the head of the coalition Greek Rally Party. The other: a brilliant and unpredictable political rival named Spyros Markezinis. A small man with a quick brain, Spyros Markezinis was as unpopular as his new boss was beloved. But Papagos made him Minister of Economic Planning, gave him complete control of the disheveled Greek economy. Soon many of the gossips in Athens cafes were...