Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Hewitt & Co. who have by no means gone unmentioned in TIME (July 26, 1943), rate a 15-gun salute for good work in five tough amphibious operations: the landings in Africa, Sicily, at Salerno, Anzio, Southern France. Possessor of one of the U.S. Navy's most brilliant mathematical minds, Admiral Hewitt is one of the prime organizers of U.S. amphibious warfare...
...speech was a solemn, serious, hard-hitting countercharge. Tom Dewey was not going to crack any jokes at the brilliant level of Bob Hope, or any other. Cried he: "I shall not join my opponent in his descent to mudslinging. . . . I will never divide America...
...flood of pent-up Chinese criticism loosed by the recent relaxation of Government censorship, one newspaper and its editor have been outstanding. The newspaper is China's leading independent, Chungking's Ta Rung Pao. Its brilliant, self-educated editor is slight, bespectacled Wang Yun-sheng. Recent excerpts from his hard-hitting editorials...
Robin Hood is played with vigor and gallantry by Robert Field, but George Lipton steals the show with his brilliant comedy portrayal of the Sheriff...
...common sense, low on imagination and passion. Most impressive: Of This Time, of That Place, by Biographer-Critic Lionel Trilling (Matthew Arnold; E. M. Forster), a Columbia University English instructor. Author Trilling's caustic, moving account of the clash between a kindly but red-taped professor and a brilliant but irrational student is calculated to make almost any pedagogue squirm...