Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South America's fifth longest;* for more than 1 ,000 miles it winds northward from the quartz-bearing uplands of Minas Gerais through the arid, scrub-covered backlands of Brazil's northeastern bulge. Then, suddenly, it hurls itself 275 feet down a jagged granite precipice in the spectacular Paulo Afonso Falls...
...accident in 1926, was prompted by husband John Marsh to write a novel instead of straining her eyes reading them. She wrote on & off for nearly ten years, reluctantly surrendered her incomplete manuscript to the Macmillan Co. in 1935. The monumental (1,037 pages) Civil War romance was a spectacular success, sold more than 6,000,000 copies in 30 languages, earned for its publicity-shy author a Pulitzer Prize (1937) and well over...
Triple Play. The Italian venture is the most spectacular example of Coca-Cola's profitable global expansion. With more than 370 bottlers operating outside the U.S. at present, the company intends to triple that number within five years...
...Reservist Howley as commander in Berlin, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy got a topflight U.S. professional-Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, wartime commander of the famed 101st Airborne Division, later Superintendent of West Point, more recently Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in Europe. Taylor's most spectacular wartime exploit came in 1943 when-he slipped through the German lines wearing his U.S. uniform, and under the Nazis' noses made his way to Rome for armistice talks with Premier Pietro Badoglio...
Trick Mirror. From gangsters, the FBI graduated to bigger fish. Within 24 hours after 1125 p.m. on Dec 7, 1941, the FBI had put 1,771 enemy aliens behind bars. The FBI scored spectacular wartime coups: arresting ten German saboteurs who landed from submarines along the Atlantic coastline; trapping a 33-man spy ring in Manhattan with the help of movie cameras and a trick mirror. All through the war, FBI agents helped man a radio station which Nazi agents had set up on Long Island, and saw to it that Berlin received just the transmissions the U.S. wanted...