Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing, however, is very easy to know. Mario is one of the most eloquent--and intelligent--politicians in recent history. His political ideas are sophisticated, yet easily communicated. His published memoirs are considered a fine specimen of political literature. He is a brilliant orator, leaving spectacular crescendos and deafening pauses to resonate through the audience. He has no trouble using the words capisce and chutzpah in the same sentence, and he comes out sounding like a mensch every time. He is, in a word, inspiring...
...more than 40 years the U.S.S.R. was the Great Other, the polestar by which the U.S. charted its course in the world. Now, with the Soviet Union virtually out of business abroad and breaking up at home, American foreign policy faces an identity crisis. It won't be as spectacular as the one dominating the news these past two weeks, but its outcome will be just as important...
...belt. It created the laser, the transistor, the microchip and the electronic computer, broke the genetic code and conjured up the miracle of recombinant DNA technology. It described the fundamental nature of matter, solved the mystery of the quasars and designed the robot craft that explored distant planets with spectacular success. And, as promised, it landed a man on the moon...
...says, he took his biggest swing of the entire competition. It landed in the rough; Daly salvaged a par 4. "I came to the P.G.A. tournament with nothing to lose," he says, "and I think that had everything to do with winning it." Later, he improved on his spectacular triumph by promising $30,000 of the $230,000 prize to the children of a spectator killed by lightning at the tournament...
...slogan of some 300 left- leaning intellectuals protesting ceremonies for a nation they consider too rich, too smug and too hypocritical to rate any respect for its age. Even the voters of the central Swiss cantons -- loosely the equivalent of America's 13 original states -- opted against any spectacular celebrations. They judged it an environmentally harmful and needless extravagance...