Word: marvellous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appreciation, from all sides, and mainly among French people, come the most enthusiastic comments, and all marvel at the sources and accuracy of TIME'S information...
With his first bull, Manolete was as good as his billing. His derechazo (pass to the right) was a marvel of elegance. When he made five naturales (singlehanded pivoting passes) with his left hand, the enchanted aficionados threw their hats into the ring. The kill was magnificent. Fur jackets, coats, ties, even shoes showered on Manolete, who gravely marched around the ring, holding aloft the ears and tail of the bull...
...customary to begin a review of a Budapest Quartet concert by launching into effusive praise of what has rightly been called the greatest string quartet of the twentieth century. A listener can only marvel at the Quartet's richness and clear, full tones, to say nothing of its amazing technical proficiency in all the intricacies of the string quartet...
...Neck. In Fruita, Colo., an illustrative marvel took place. A farmer chopped off the head of a rooster named Mike. He missed Mike's jugular vein and a lump of tissue at the top of his neck that controlled Mike's motor impulses...
Bull-Necked Males. "The creature familiar as Superman is the leader of a swarm of satellites separated from him only by a copyright. Scores of comic books feature similar characters-for example, Catman, Bullet Man, The Human Torch, Captain Midnight, Captain Marvel, Black Terror, Blue Beetle, Green Lama, Yankee Boy, Bogey Man-which follow the Superman pattern of a 'hero' who overcomes all obstacles with machine-like precision. Often, victory comes from frankly preternatural powers . . . propulsion and X-ray vision: these heroes' bull necks are often a pretty fair index of their intellectual prowess...