Word: craft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exposition, quiet as a Sunday-school teacher's lesson, is over. The storyteller, in the fullness of his craft, has struck, and the spell is on, as surely as it was when Homer conjured up a fleet of ships on a wine-dark sea bound for the walls of Troy...
...colonies" have traditionally been the largest importers of Wedgwood in the world--40 percent of the Wedgwood exports. Jasper ware, the most popular pattern, not only displays an appreciation of a craft, but also exemplifies art and commerce in union to create a successful industry. Lord Wedgwood says seriously, "Josiah was the greatest man of any age and any country that went about uniting art and industry...
...father has been a tool-and-die worker for more than 40 years. He has always earned better-than-average wages and enjoyed his work. I wonder if people realize that masters of this craft have minds of mathematical geniuses and hands that surgeons would envy...
That is only one of the innovations that military reformers are demanding. Some others: smaller, lighter fighter planes that, they contend, would be easier to maintain and keep in the air than supersophisticated craft; light tanks for the Rapid Deployment Force that could fit snugly into most cargo planes; greater use by all services of V-STOL (very short takeoff and landing) planes, like the Marine Corps' highly successful Harrier...
...number of cargo ships fell by 297, nearly half the fleet, in the past decade. After the Viet Nam War wound down, the Navy retired a whole generation of World War II-vintage cargo vessels and concentrated its limited funds on building fighting ships. The U.S. has enough amphibious craft to enable a Marine assault group of about...