Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dick Mechem, a brilliant skater all night long, contributed the outstanding offensive play of the game early in the period with an unassisted goal, after waltzing through the entire Tech defense. The last M. I. T. tally came with Engineer Bill Verrochi in the penalty box jailed with the game's only misdemeanor, and the Crimson roared back on the short-handed Engineers with two more goals in the final thirty seconds. Jim Apthrop, a member of the third string line which saw considerable action in the final stanza, netted one goal and George Harding wound up a three-goal...
...China and her allies were alert. U.S. and R.A.F. planes harassed the enemy from the air. Brigadier General Claire Chennault's China-based air forces, in their most destructive raid of the war, blasted Haiphong in Indo-China, destroying shipping and munition dumps. Chennault's tactics were brilliant. Lightning-like, he struck around the compass. R.A.F. and U.S. pilots from India attacked Jap airdromes in Thailand and Burma. And in Yunnan, China's southernmost province, the troops of General Chiang Kai-shek waited in the jungles...
...showed Negroes playing harmonicas, shooting craps, teaching Sunday school, and a vigorous study of two bucks locked together in a razor fight (one of Painter Binford's childhood memories). In most of these pictures, somber tones of the sooty bodies and faces stood out in contrast to the brilliant light of a lamp, the yellow interior of a church at night, the flame of a match. All reveal Artist Binford's understanding of Negroes...
...Corot started to paint at 26, did not sell a painting for many years. During that time he travelled incessantly (on a handsome allowance from his father), not for pleasure, but to study landscape. His chief inspiration came from Italy, where he did some of his best work: the brilliant, sunlit View of Genoa, the lovely Olevano with its Cezanne-like brushwork. Not until he was in his 50s and under the influence of the Barbizon school did Corot begin to paint, not what nature is, but his dream of what it ought...
Darlan was therefore an essential key in the quick conquest of North Africa since he could control both the people and the army. The use of Darlas was therefore a brilliant coup on the part of General Eisenhower, whose conduct of the campaign received many compliments in Morize's talk...