Word: masterminder
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...miles north, two other groups of peaceful invaders, one with 20 marchers, another with ten, all Goans, walked calmly into the little colony. Back at his headquarters in the Indian town of Karwar, 46-year-old Peter Alvares. president of the National Congress of Goa and mastermind of the unarmed invasion to "liberate" the colony, insisted that all this was according to plan: he had instructed his liberators to scatter among the people of Goa and preach freedom until captured...
...president were golden years for M.I.T. He completed the great George Eastman Research Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry, set up the Graduate School, reorganized the undergraduate course to give M.I.T.'s science and engineering students a better grounding in the liberal arts. During the war, he helped mastermind the atomic bomb project, saw M.I.T. and Harvard turn Cambridge, Mass, into the radar center of the world...
...Hollywood last week, Radio-TV Producer John Guedel, a fast-moving mastermind of audience-participation shows, decided to switch his People Are Funny program from CBS to NBC. For this switch, John Guedel Productions gets $3,200,000, and is thus assured a far bigger gross for 1954 than the $5,000,000 it made last year...
...from Kentucky who had made a reputation with Morgan's Raiders. Cool, intelligent and apparently without fear, he had been assigned to espionage work by the Confederacy's Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin. In Confederate Agent, Author Horan tries to prove that Captain Hines was the mastermind of a gigantic plot to defeat the North from within. Hines's chief weapon: a vast, fifth-column army of Copperheads whose leaders Hines was to inspire and direct. That the plot did not work, says Horan, was no fault of Hines...
...least for a time. It provides the convicts with an opportunity to invent a variety of tricks, including mock trials and frivolous discussions of good and evil, in their efforts to save the Ducotels. Slezak, bouncing about the stage in a care-free, self-assured style, is the real mastermind of the group. A superb comedian, he makes gimmicks which might have grown stale seem fresh throughout...