Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Away!" Then Root nosed the ship down slightly as thousands of pounds of bombs shot down onto Yawata. Root made a steep left turn. Through the copilot's windows I could see another Superfortress on the bomb-run below us; there was another overhead. Then there was a brilliant flash below...
...week, when Anthony Eden (who reportedly dislikes Menemencioglu) complained that German warships, disguised as merchantmen, had been allowed to cruise through Turkey's Dardanelles, Ankara had to give in. Numan Menemencioglu took the fall, handed over his portfolio to Premier Sükrü Saracoglu. But nobody thought brilliant Mr. Menemencioglu was out for a very long count...
From Rats to Nazis. Such, says Maier, was the condition of the German people after their defeat in World War I and the ensuing economic depression. Adolf Hitler's strategy was psychologically brilliant. He heightened the Germans' belligerence by increasing their frustration through Gestapo-enforced Verbote, then gave them objects of aggression: the Jews, the Communists, more Lebensraum. Maier observes significantly that even after the Germans had crushed the Jews and annexed Lebensraum in Austria and Czechoslovakia, their aggression continued; their fixation would not let them rest. Against such pathological aggressiveness neither appeasement nor persuasion could have...
...Right. After the fall of Rome, Alexander smashed the German right with a brilliant trick. Through the tired formations of the Allied Fifth Army he secretly slipped an entirely fresh unit-the 6th South African Armored Division (veterans of Ethiopia and East Africa). The maneuver was a stunning success. The exhausted German Fourteenth Army collapsed before the new well-organized strength...
Bandmaster Rolfe has endeared himself to Long Beach's music lovers by adding a judicious dash of polyrhythmic oomph to the band's traditional rhythmic oompah. A man of unblushing temperament, who conducts with his back to the band, he frankly describes his abilities as "brilliant." "I have always been one of those spectacular musicians," says he. Band- master Rolfe soothes his audiences with such items as Overture to the Viking, scenes from Babes in Toyland, selections from Porgy and Bess. His theory: "Give 'em what they want...