Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hiroshima, 30.000 had died in the explosion; 30,000 more had died in the following fortnight from mysterious ailments;* some victims' skin turned brilliant red, formed giant blisters...
...pressed the toggle and the single bomb was away, down through the substratosphere. Colonel Paul Warfield Tibbets, the pilot, took back the controls and ten pairs of eyes strained at the plexiglass windows as Tibbets turned the plane broadside to Hiroshima. It took less than 60 seconds. Then the brilliant morning sunlight was slashed by a more brilliant white flash. It was so strong that the crew of the Superfortress Enola Gay felt a "visual shock," although all wore sun glasses...
Somehow, even during the darkest days of their war against the Nazis, the Reds had managed to keep their Far Eastern forces almost a million strong. Last week, under the overall command of bulky, brilliant Marshal Alexander M. Vasilevsky, they poured across the border. The Reds had plenty of tactical aircraft in support; they had plenty of guns, plenty of motorized equipment, plenty of battle-tried officers...
...James Chadwick of England discovered the neutron, a particle which has no electric charge and therefore slips straight through the powerful electric shields outside and inside of heavy atoms. Soon Italy's brilliant Enrico Fermi (who has lived in the U.S. since 1939), was attacking all sorts of heavy atoms, including uranium, with neutrons. The neutron became the trigger of the atomic bomb...
Dick, who has frequently been opposed by some of the brilliant pupils that have given him his fame as mentor of coaches as well as of players, won't find Yale's Howie Odell on the opposite bench this fall, but he will wave a cigar to Earl Brown, the football and basketball coach Harvard lost to Dartmouth two years ago. It's Lieutenant (jg) Brown. USMS. now, and he's leading the Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy, the Merchant Marine's equivalent of West Point and Annapolis, into its first year of big-time football. Harvard plays the Academy...