Word: mastermind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Williston said that her office sees "no point in trying to mastermind" the assignment of freshman roommates too much, since the "very nature of this college and of these students means that the 318 girls in the Class of 1966 are already diversified." She added that Radcliffe girls are likely to be people who can adjust to a range of personalities, and who will therefore be able to get along with any roommate...
...convicts were Frank Lee Morris, 35, and brothers John Anglin. 32, and Clarence Anglin, 31. With an IQ of 133,* ;Morris was undoubtedly the trio's mastermind-and to escape from Alcatraz he had need for real, if perverted, intelligence. The island got its name-Isla de los Alcatraces, meaning Isle of the Pelicans - from the 18th century Spaniards, and only pelicans have ever been free to come and go easily. At one time Alcatraz held military prisoners; later it became a domicile for such eminent civilians as Al Capone and "Machine Gun" Kelly. Many have tried to escape...
...Leavis labeled Snow as not only "portentously ignorant," but also as a non-novelist who "can't be said to know what a novel is." And worse, Snow is a middlebrow promoter of science who "has become for a vast public on both sides of the Atlantic a mastermind and a sage...
...Mastermind of the takeover attempt is smooth-talking I.C.I. Chairman Stanley Paul Chambers, 57, rated by some as Britain's ablest executive. Defeat would spell a sorry setback for ambitious Chambers, but he obviously counts on winning...
...Ambassador Lincoln Gordon presented his credentials, he brought with him an invitation from President Kennedy. The same day, Goulart called in Communist Poland's visiting Foreign Minister, Adam Rapacki, awarded him the Order of the Southern Cross-the same decoration that Quadros hung on Cuba's Marxist mastermind, Che Guevara, setting off the furor that in time toppled Quadros. To be sure that no one missed the point, Brazil's Foreign Minister announced that his nation no longer considered itself a member of the Western bloc, and was going to stop "playing with marked cards...