Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliant southpass, whose 21 victories were a prime factor in Milwaukee's first National League pennant, received all but one of the votes of the 16-man panel of baseball writers who participated in the annual poll. The other vote went to Dick Donovan, of Quincy, Mass., the Chicago White Sox' big righthander...
Though it is impossible to predict where it will fall, since most of the earth is water and uninhabited land, the fall may not be within human eyesight, Dr. Spitz asserted. He said that the flash would be brilliant at night and possibly so bright that it could be visible in the daytime...
...Matter of Batting. In the midst of Russia's dangerous mixture of bluster and acknowledged technological performance, the free world can take considerable satisfaction from the fact that the U.S. Air Force is in command of a brilliant, unobtrusive West Pointer with a flair for understatement. Tommy White, 56, a tall, austere airman with a ramrod-back carriage, well knows the Russian danger, well knows the need to tighten and use the bomber force-in-being to best advantage while the U.S. brings in its missile force...
...with best long-range prospects is brilliant, pro-Western Fritz Erler, 44, a Berlin chemical-firm executive until the Gestapo jailed him in 1939 for underground activity, and now the party's leading expert on defense questions. Erler was in the vanguard of Socialist moderates who led the party out of its postwar "Ohne Mich" (Include Me Out) policy to a more reasonable posture on rearmament, membership in NATO, and Western European cooperation...
...Casement affair, one of the century's most sensational treason cases, has now been reconstructed in a fascinating biography by British Journalist Rene MacColl, who tells the story of a brilliant, unsavory and enigmatic would-be hero...