Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last July Captain Hyman George Rickover, brilliant expediter of the atomic submarine, was passed over for promotion to rear admiral. He seemed headed for mandatory retirement at the relatively early...
...listening to Lenin's cold, hard logic, Stalin became a devoted disciple. A cold and careful mind responded to a cold and brilliant mind. The party was flat broke and Koba became the appropriations member of the Caucasian Bolshevik Bureau, i.e., he directed "fighting squads" which robbed banks, public treasuries, steamships. His biggest haul: a quarter of a million rubles in a stickup in the main square of Tiflis. Among those arrested as a result of this raid was Litvinov, future Commissar for Foreign Affairs, who was trying to dispose of the loot in Paris. Koba, although...
Among the Socialist intellectuals of her home town, the swarthy, shock-haired Georgian added nothing to the brilliant debates in which such men as Lunacharsky, Commissar of Education, the historian Pokrovsky, and Ryazanov, biographer of Marx, took part. His harsh Georgian accent put him at a disadvantage in public speechmaking. Someone asked: "Who is Stalin?" Snapped Trotsky: "The most eminent mediocrity in the Party." But Stalin worked purposefully in committees. His Nationalities Commissariat, which had begun with a bare table in a bare room, numbered hundreds of "experts" and his control extended over 65 million of Russia...
...official restorer for Kansas City's William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, James Roth was the first to notice something strange about one of the old Chinese murals on loan to the gallery. All were well-preserved examples of 12th century Chinese wall painting, brilliant scenes of ancient deities in jewels and flowing robes; in one, Roth saw a curious crack running across the surface, and down inside the fissure he spotted a trace of bright blue paint peeping through. Then the murals went back to their owner and Roth forgot about...
...give the Nelson gallery the cracked mural. When Roth saw the mysterious trace of blue again, he got permission to try a delicate experiment. He cut a tiny square out of the 800-year-old painting, looked underneath and jumped up with excitement: this time the second layer showed brilliant red. For six months. Roth carefully cut and loosened square after square of the top layer, lifted them out with kitchen spatulas, then carefully scraped and vacuumed off a thin layer of rice husks and mud to expose a second mural underneath the first...