Word: mastermind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more example of how we are losing our security in the name of security . . . Unless all the pundits I have read so far were dead wrong, Ladejinsky-and MacArthur-in the land reform program in Japan were on the right track. Now, wasn't this dismissal of the mastermind of the program a colossal mistake...
...they had always owned them. Viet Minh propagandists set up scores of "centers of political education for the people." Past fluttering banks of gold-starred flags, wispy Ho Chi Minh returned triumphantly to the city from which he fled in 1946 to hide in the jungle and mastermind Communism's war for Indo-China...
...miles north, two other groups of peaceful invaders, one with 20 marchers, another with ten, all Goans, walked calmly into the little colony. Back at his headquarters in the Indian town of Karwar, 46-year-old Peter Alvares. president of the National Congress of Goa and mastermind of the unarmed invasion to "liberate" the colony, insisted that all this was according to plan: he had instructed his liberators to scatter among the people of Goa and preach freedom until captured...
...president were golden years for M.I.T. He completed the great George Eastman Research Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry, set up the Graduate School, reorganized the undergraduate course to give M.I.T.'s science and engineering students a better grounding in the liberal arts. During the war, he helped mastermind the atomic bomb project, saw M.I.T. and Harvard turn Cambridge, Mass, into the radar center of the world...
...Hollywood last week, Radio-TV Producer John Guedel, a fast-moving mastermind of audience-participation shows, decided to switch his People Are Funny program from CBS to NBC. For this switch, John Guedel Productions gets $3,200,000, and is thus assured a far bigger gross for 1954 than the $5,000,000 it made last year...