Word: splendids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Sir Winston Churchill has had the bomb constantly in his mind, particularly since that April day in 1954 when the first public image of the hydrogen fireball billowed out of the photographs into the minds of men. Now, his shock behind him, his desperation gone, Churchill gave splendid utterance to the belief that has guided the U.S. ever since Hiroshima: that nuclear fission spells hope, as well as horror, for mankind...
...bouquet to both Dr. Jung and TIME [Feb. 14] for their splendid efforts in at tempting to convey many highly specialized data concerning today's most momentous issue - genuine mental health. In this era of escapism, mass alcoholism, counterfeit divorce decrees, hospitalized thousands of paranoia, hebephrenia and catatonia victims who are the victims of serious social blights, shallow philosophy, A- and H-bomb hysteria, pathetically false rationalizing and a disregard for God's holy commandments, etc., yours was an exceptionally well-timed article...
...Brooklyn Museum stands a splendid statuette of almost solid copper, silently questioning knowledgeable visitors. The questions: "Do I represent a hero, a king, a priest, a demon, a god, or some ancient's idea of a joke? Was I molded and cast by a Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Kassite, Hurrian, Hyksos, Elamite, or by some barbaric genius of the Caucasus? Was my native city Eridu, perhaps, or Susa. Persepolis, Nineveh, Larsa, Lagash, Umma, Ur, Alalakh, or Hattusas? Am I 5,000 years old, or closer to a mere...
Even Ch. Kippax ("Jock") Fearnought, 65 Ibs. of snuffling, bowlegged bulldog, got the kind of going-over that lavender-scented old ladies save for their lap dogs. A splendid anachronism from the days when Britons still baited bulls, 28-month-old Jock waddled into the ring without so much as a brier scratch or the toothmark of an honest alley fight on his tough red-and-white hide. Bored, and too lazy to walk a step more than necessary, he took the blue ribbon among nonsporting breeds...
...Marshal Zhukov, I will say this: he was a competent soldier. A man could not have conducted the campaigns he did, could not have explained them so lucidly and in terms of his own strength and his own weaknesses and so on, except that he was a well-trained, splendid military leader...