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Word: spectacularly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louisiana State (6-0)-never spectacular but, as always, equal to the occasion, edging Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Ten | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Although he can get a library card its spectacular growth. Although great progress has been made, the Russian field, Shulman points out, and can meet academic and governmental officials, he has no chance for protracted research...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Studying the Enigmas of the Soviet Union | 10/28/1959 | See Source »

Near the close of the first quarter, one of the most spectacular scoring plays of the season took place. Koval faded back, fought off a determined group of swarming Middies, and threw the ball as far as he could down the middle of the field. Forty yards away, Quaker halfback Peter Schantz was outrunning two Navy defenders. He caught up with the football on the 10 and tallied--a 60-yard scoring pass. The Quakers...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Quakers Loom as Football Power | 10/27/1959 | See Source »

...choices of top men for the top jobs-Eisenhower, Bradley, Clark, Hodges, Patton. He resolutely supported Marshall's argument, over Douglas MacArthur's, that the Allies had to win the European war first before going all-out in the Pacific-a turn of events that galled the spectacular MacArthur, who was Chief of Staff when Marshall was a lieutenant colonel. When F.D.R. succumbed to the prolonged arguments of Winston Churchill, who insisted on attacking the "soft underbelly of Europe," it was Marshall who got him to change his mind in favor of an assault across the English Channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Soldier | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Crimson ends Gerald Jordon and Paul Kirk led the passing offense. Quarterback Tom Boone made a spectacular catch in which he juggled the ball in the air and leaped to pull it down in the midst of several opponents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Grid Squad Beats Dartmouth On Bamford TD | 10/24/1959 | See Source »

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