Word: topmost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Imperial General Staff, stood in the midst of his aides, watching maneuvers. Wingate saluted and gave the astounded general a severe talking-to (eventually he won his appointment). Time and again later, Wingate was to go over the heads of his field commanders and appeal successfully to the topmost brass, right up to Prime Minister Winston Churchill...
...captains and New England merchants, Peabody began to receive treasures of ethnology from the Pacific, most notably the exotic feather capes from Hawaii. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that the Museum started off with the finest anthropological collection in the country and to this day its topmost position cannot easily be challenged...
...pratfalls, it was still Hollywood, pure Hollywood, more enduring than brass. Onto U.S. TV screens flashed a high-style gloss of lovely women and handsome men. bright-eyed before the topmost awards: the "Oscars" that signify which of them, in the opinion of their peers, have talent, too. There were so many stars in view that nothing anybody could do-neither an uncivil singing satire by Angela Lansbury, Dana Wynter and Joan Collins, nor some oddly tasteless quips by Bob Hope-could keep the movies from running off with television's highest rating of the season, and some...
...waters rose, hills became islands crowded with panicky beasts. In the topmost branches of submerging trees, baboons and monkeys clung like lumpy brown fruit. Snakes swam blindly in circles. Guinea fowl, who are inept flyers, paddled around vainly like ineffectual ducks. Civet cats, porcupines, ant bears, rabbits, wart hogs, lizards, boomslangs, and many bushbucks of many types crowded together on bald hilltops. During the day the equatorial sun beat down mercilessly, and birds of prey swooped in for unprecedented feasts. There are few baby monkeys or baboons-most have been eaten, some by their own species. The desperate monkeys gnaw...
...Tintoretto's Flora, Titian's Portrait of the Admiral Vincenzo Capello, Soutine's Valet de Chambre), as well as some not-so-great works by great masters (Renoir's Pheasant, Derain's Renaissance-style Portrait of Lady Adby), which have good names if not topmost quality...