Word: superb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guns of U.S. newspaper book reviewing greeted Rome Hanks last fort night with the most thunderous salvo that has welcomed a first novel since Gone With The Wind. It was a "superb achieve ment" to the New York Times and "a beautiful and terrible book" to the Herald Tribune; a "powerful, intense and tre mendous story" to the Chicago Sun; "extraordinary, impressive, raw, vital, brutal and alive" to the San Francisco Chronicle...
Bergman, Boyer, and Cotten turn in superb performances. With their acting, and excellent directing, "Gaslight" archives a rare degree of taut suspense which more than makes up for the complexity of the plot...
Candidate Thomas E. Dewey in his acceptance speech at Chicago placed the accent on youth. The Administration, he said, has grown old and tired in office. He also said, "General Marshall and Admiral King are doing a superb job." Marshall is 63 years old; King is 65. President Roosevelt...
...military conduct of the war is outside this campaign. . . . General Marshall and Admiral King are doing a superb job. Thank God for both of them. Let me make it crystal clear that a change of Administration next January cannot and will not involve any change in the military conduct...
...years since he was a studious, all but unknown staff-college instructor, with a lieutenant colonel's crown-and-pip on his shoulders and an insufferable habit of talking down to his classes. But he was then what he is now, a completely dedicated professional, soldier, with a superb sense of the big things of war, and an utter contempt for the small...