Word: craft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With so many people putting their lives on paper, workshops and college extension courses have sprung up from coast to coast to help them with the writing craft. Anyone can start. Looking at old pictures or magazines, remembering the way things tasted, sounded and smelled, and recalling a specific incident, such as the first day of school or the first family car, can bring a flood of memories. Some people write in solitude, while many prefer working with a group. Others want a gentle guide. Along their journey through the past, people discover that what may have seemed an unimportant...
...polishing a 1,200-page draft. His only brush with formal training was a class 12 years ago at San Francisco State, and he taught himself to type before retiring at age 55 from his job producing instructional material for the Social Security Administration. He studied the writing craft by reading entire shelvesful of books and points to Marcel Proust's masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past, as inspiration...
...third period, when she scored twice within a span of 2:04 to give Harvard what appeared to be a commanding 5-3 lead. She completed the hat trick with 6:49 left in regulation with a trademark put-back of a rebound in the crease. She mastered that craft while playing on Harvard's explosive power-play unit--except that this time the Crimson was not on the man advantage...
Senator Joseph Biden, who helped Clinton craft his approach to Kosovo, explains that Powell had become "a paralysis doctrine." Military operations today have to be conducted in murky regions like the Balkans, where there are no precise exit strategies. Presidents, said Biden, have to be able to use force not knowing exactly what the outcome or consequences may be. "That's the nature of the world today," Biden told Clinton...
...first to discover that a long, narrow wing shape was the ideal architecture of flight. They figured out how to move the vehicle freely, not just across land, but up and down on a cushion of air. They built a forward elevator to control the pitch of their craft as it nosed up and down. They fashioned a pair of twin rudders in back to control its tendency to yaw from side to side. They devised a pulley system that warped the shape of the wings in midflight to turn the plane and to stop it from rolling laterally...