Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...having tasted popularity, Naguib wanted power. He was President and Premier in name only; brilliant, selfless, young (36) Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real creator of the revolution, made all the big decisions, and he passed on to Naguib all the state papers, with notations on what to do. Naguib wanted a finer home, in keeping with his title; he insisted, when Egypt became a republic, on becoming Premier as well as President. He learned how to sulk and how to suffer diplomatic illnesses...
Occasionally, Teacher MacDonald allows, her American sixth-graders were "sensitive and brilliant." Somehow, the troublemakers "picked it all up ... in a way that many of our more studious classes might envy." One day she read them Matthew Arnold's The Forsaken Merman, and "there was dead silence, everyone as deeply attentive as a devout congregation in church." It was one day when victory went to teacher...
Taking a leaf from Lincoln's book, Roosevelt had hoped to make the Republicans "the party of sane, constructive radicalism." His well-planned reforms, like the regulation of big business and the natural resources conservation program, made him and his party immensely popular, as did his brilliant diplomacy, sometimes a singlehanded operation. ("I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate, and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.") By 1908. "reactionary"' Democrats were getting the same abuse that Cousin Franklin's young men of a latter day were to heap on the Republicans. Roosevelt...
Rough, alert defense work by Mrkonich and Jeff Coolidge managed to stop most of these attacks until the final two minutes of the period. Then it took seven consecutive, often brilliant, saves by Flynn to prevent the Elis from gaining a first-place tie with the league-leading Crimson sextet. Flynn totalled 42 saves...
Individual champion Roger Campbell, Princeton's number one man, let the varsity's first man Larry Brownell gain a two game-to-one lead and an 8-2 advantage in the fourth, before turning on the brilliant display of speed, pressure, and accuracy which brought him the victory...