Word: crafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...higher pay, a move that many employers welcome since it will permit them to give the bigger pay raises they think the skilled workers deserve. Despite this progress, employers are still unable to tap extensively one huge pool of potential skills-the Negro worker -traditionally barred by many craft unions...
Speedy Stories. Another large-sized little person (5 ft. 7 in., 160 lbs.), silver-haired Jim Bishop, 49, talks in terse, side-of-the-mouth sentences that often sound as if he read Hemingway before writing, also brings to his craft an Irish eye for sentiment and a memory for "all the important little tiles of fact on every story of consequence." He is a tenacious reporter, with a disarming manner and a glib way of dramatizing. Bishop on Bishop: "I'm a reporter. A pretty good one. A pro. If my work is memorable, it's because...
...admirals' stars, in all), and kept a weather eye out to sea. Then from along the beach below, the shriek of jet planes and blast of simulated atomic bombs drowned out the music. As the planes carried out their make-believe destruction, nine waves of landing craft chugged toward the beach, bringing 3,500 U.S. Marines. Operation Carib-Ex was under...
Except for a white carved swan that shields its driver (called its"skipper"), a swan boat is fairly awkward as small-craft go, resembling a barge of floating park benches. There are big brassrails curving over bow and stern used to pull a landing boat to the dock and a jaunty litle American flag out in front. When I approached this peculiar fleet, one of the waiting skippers stood nearby examining the foot-pedal, apparatus...
...this 95-minute film the writer has bodied out his characters, stropped sharp his implication that the defendant in the case is not only this jury but the entire jury system, and even justice itself as the Anglo-American mind conceives it. And with a mixture of classic craft and hard-cover whodunitism that sometimes suggests a weirdly successful collaboration between Aeschylus and Agatha Christie, Scenarist Rose has jittered his melodrama with fierce juridical excitement...