Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concluded Ecclesia in a follow-up editorial: let Spain "beware of a comfortable attitude of complacency toward brilliant processions and of indulging in the rash assumption that law and the police are enough to check silent storms, well-founded discontent and rampant social injustice." Next door in Portugal, a bishop raised the same warning cry last week. In a pastoral letter published in Lisbon's Roman Catholic daily, Novidados, Bishop Jose do Patrocinio Dias of Beja called upon both government and private charity to come to the aid of the poverty-stricken rural workers whose numbers were "not decreasing...
...story as in style to the old Scots legend. Rob Roy (Richard Todd) is chief of Clan MacGregor, A.D. 1715. He loves a High land lassie, Helen Mary (Glynis Johns), but hesitates to marry her as long as he is fighting the English. Against them he wages a brilliant guerrilla war that finally discredits the British Secretary of State for Scotland, the cruel Duke of Montrose (Michael Gough), and brings a true Scottish patriot, the Duke of Argyll (James Robertson Justice) back to power. In the end, Rob, his bagpiper and his sword-squire strut through London Town...
Harry Sacks' second half foul shooting, brilliant defensive play by Ed Krinsky and Ed Condon, and last second heroics by Ed Blodnick failed to pull off what might have been the biggest upset of the season Saturday night, as Navy edged the varsity basketball team, 71 to 69. Before the game the Middies had been favored by 15 points...
College administrations feel that they are currently competing for brilliant students just as they might bid for good halfbacks. The competition started with the Harvard National Scholarships and it has extended principally to the small colleges. Authorities have been tempted to make a student's need a secondary consideration, and also let an attempt at geographical distribution outweigh the needs of often more worthy Eastern students...
Weeks of toil had produced brilliant snow statues in front of each fraternity house. And on the insides all was heat and clean, ready for the weekend blast and the serious business of having the good time that has been planned and looked forward to all fall...