Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Speaker H. Julian Allen of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the honor was well timed. That morning Avco Manufacturing Corp. announced that it had devised a blunt-nose cone for the Air Force ICBM Titan. Originator of the blunt-nose concept: Dr. "Harvey" Allen, one of the most brilliant and colorful of the nation's flight scientists...
...make it a lively newspaper, the neat, tight Chicago Sun-Times (circ. 588,181) loses more capable newsmen than any other Chicago daily. One reason is that the Sun-Times diligently recruits promising staffers, pushes them ahead-and loses many to bigger jobs elsewhere. Two more specific reasons are: brilliant, blustery Executive Editor Milburn ("Pete") Akers, 57, as famed for his highhandedness in a rage as for his openhandedness with a raise or bonus; and big (6 ft. i in., 250 Ibs.), bluff Managing Editor Thomas F. (for Fox) Reynolds, 46, whose barracks-square bellow has earned him the nickname...
...defense could not contain the Crimson as cutters repeatedly broke loose under the boards for easy one-handers and lay-ups. When the Huskies tried to lay back to frustrate the driving offense, George Harrington lofted long sets to reopen the keyhole area. Playing his usual brilliant game, Harrington also notched 19 points and assisted in several more...
Captain Bob Cleary delighted the crowd with his brilliant "winding-up" plays and was very consistent in outskating every Clarkson player. The potential combination of Lyle Guttu and Cleary is undoubtedly the greatest in the East...
French intellectuals are never happier than when planting the horns of a dilemma on another Frenchman's head. Raymond Aron, brilliant political commentator and Sorbonne professor of philosophy, contends that this intellectual thingumbobbery makes French thinkers and their followers so outrageous and opinionated, so unable to get along with one another, that it is a wonder France exists...