Word: unspectacularly
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...responsible for Hunt's spectacular leap into the big time is its unspectacular owner and president: black-haired, aggressive Norton Simon, 38. When he bought control of Hunt in 1942, many housewives had never heard of Hunt Products. Simon told them by billboard, newspaper and radio so loudly and effectively that "Hunt for the Best" became a household slogan. One result: the West Coast, all but drinking Hunt's tomato sauce like milk, now buys almost half of the 100 million cans a year they sell (nearly five cans per capita...
...measure of Russian might last week was not in spectacular advances, but in the Red Army's sureness in the slow, unspectacular jobs that must precede the next phase of its grand offensive. For the moment the Russians were methodically straightening and tidying their lines...
...Denver. The Army's shrewd tactics in Chicago were followed with similar unspectacular neatness in Ward stores in six other cities-Detroit, Denver, St. Paul, Portland (Ore.), Jamaica (N.Y.), San Rafael (Calif.). In Detroit, which WLB Chairman William H. Davis had described as "explosive," union men gleefully broke a 19-day-old picket line when the Army took over. In the previous three weeks, gangs of vandals had three times invaded Ward stores in Detroit, overturning counters, trampling merchandise, smashing fixtures (see cut). Now, pickets marched away, waving U.S. flags. In Denver, Clerk Vera Jean Perkins, seeing the Army...
Leonard Bernstein can hardly be called another Gershwin, but he is the closest thing to the great composer that America is likely to enjoy for a long time. The brilliant young prodigy goes from successes in the symphony "Jeremiah" and the ballet "Fancy Free" to an unspectacular but extremely arresting debut on the musical comedy stage...
Being governor of a state in wartime is unspectacular. Revenues roll in, expenditures are down, job hunters scarce. Nevertheless, Tom Dewey had played his unspectacular part efficiently and well. He had surrounded himself with as able a team of top assistants as had ever been seen in Albany...