Word: adept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more capable singer than Hutton, especially in projecting her personality through radio and records. In the main, though, hers is a very limited and pedestrian talent compared with even the average swing musician's. Dinah's best interpretations are expressly designed for romance, and she is more than adept. Other times she signs pleasantly, if that well. If you like her, fine. But if you can listen to Benny Goodman, can separate the slag from the gold, and still like Dinah, your standards are inconsistent...
...lost not a single Flying Fortress on some 60 plane missions across the line. In five of the flights there was no proof that the U.S.'s high-flying bomber carried its own protection against German pursuit, for British pilots in Spitfires went along, gave the Fortresses an adept and able defense. But in the sixth raid nine Fortresses went out beyond the range of their fighter escort, plowed on alone over the North...
Destiny with Pliers. A promising career as a trainer of race horses was interrupted when one day, in the person of Pilot Tom Black, famed African longdistance flyer, she met "Destiny with pliers in his hand." Tom Black taught Beryl to fly. She became a free-lance pilot, adept in all the lordly and dangerous aerial perspectives of an abstruse continent, which she often superbly implies but seldom traps in words. She was, so far as she knows, the first woman to fly the mails in Africa. She was certainly the first human being to scout for elephants...
...life repudiating western civilization. Jujitsu. Yet "that mind," says Expert Kiralfy, "is our real enemy. Without it Emperor Hirohito's armies are just so many mobs, his naval squadrons just so many tons of steel." It is the jujitsu mind, he says-not especially resourceful or daring, but adept at feeling out the weaknesses or imbalance of an enemy's position, and at acting swiftly and mercilessly for a fall or a kill. Kiralfy analyzes the reasoning by which the Japanese grasped the unrealism of U.S. military thinking and for years prepared for a kind of warfare...
According to Coach Peddie, the Wheaton damsels, who apparently have not been seeing too many men this spring, brought about their own downfall when, instead of playing their most adept golfers, made use of the prettiest girls who had some slight knowledge of the rules...