Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leftist's: Arthur Koestler, of Budapest, Vienna, Berlin, Haifa, Cairo, Moscow, Paris, Zurich, Seville, and now of London, is a veteran of many of Europe's military and ideological battlefields, concentration camps, hospitals, prisons, a journalist of repute, the author of one of the most brilliant and powerful novels of the present day (Darkness at Noon; TIME...
...Signed a glowing letter of praise to Russia's Joseph Stalin: "I congratulate you on the brilliant victory at Stalingrad of the armies under your supreme command. ... All Americans are celebrating today. . . . One of the proudest chapters in this war of the peoples united against Naziism and its emulators. . . ." To the White House came an equally warm reply from Stalin...
Kursk Captured. Farther north, Colonel General Filip I. Golikov's forces, completing a 125-mile thrust on skis and motorized sleds, captured Kursk, one of the main pivots of the German line in south Russia. This brilliant advance not only brought the Russians past the line from which the Germans began their 1941 offensive, but it cut Kharkov off from all its northern Nazi supply bases. The fall of Kursk also enables Colonel General Golikov's armies to swing south and close on Kharkov itself...
Part of the trouble was the traditional conflict between airman and ground officer: Brigadier General Claire Lee Chennault, brilliant, unorthodox genius of the world's smallest fighting air force, had fallen out with his commander, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., homely infantryman hero of the 1942 retreat from Burma...
Bunks Burditt didn't go off the floor of the basketball court under his own power last Saturday night. He was carried off--for the last time, on the shoulders of his wild-eyed teammates, whom he had just led to one of the most brilliant upset victories in the history of Harvard basketball...