Word: deftest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McGonigle, 52, was doing his resolute best last week to retrieve the seat in Harrisburg that his party lost four years ago. The ride is uphill all the way. The Democratic candidate is Pittsburgh's four-term Mayor David Leo Lawrence, 69, one of the savviest and deftest political bosses in a state loaded with them. With 55 years in professional politics, and with Pittsburgh's gleaming new skyscrapers and superhighways as personal monuments, Dave Lawrence has a statewide reputation, strong support in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and the coal-mining regions. Roman Catholic Lawrence may have trouble...
...created. One of the profession's freest spirits and by general consensus the most versatile designer and draftsman of his generation, Ed Stone was a pioneer modernist. He early set his mark on such buildings as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, became one of the deftest interpreters of the International Style initiated by France's Le Corbusier and Germany's Bauhaus school. In recent years he revolted against the monotony of cityscapes composed of acres of glass façades. chrome and exposed steel. Instead. Architect Stone turned to his own great love of classic...
...conference, the President dismissed all these claims as "political." Congress' cuts, he said, "really" amounted to something "on the order of 900 million to a billion." The President's source for this surprising figure was his own Budget Bureau, which arrived at it through one of the deftest juggling performances since the late W. C. Fields laid aside his Indian clubs. Congress appropriated $67.3 billion, or $6 billion less than Ike's original $73.3 billion total. But, argued the Budget Bureau, Ike himself cut roughly $2 billion from that $73.3 billion, partly by trimming spending estimates, partly...
Though the assembled thousands included many of the deftest-fingered scalpel wielders and gut tiers in the U.S., and such honored elder surgeons as New Orleans' Alton Ochsner and St. Louis' Evarts Graham, there was none among them who towered above his fellows as did Baltimore's William Stewart Halsted half a century ago, or Halsted's pupil, Harvey Gushing, a generation later. The reason lies not in a decline in the caliber of surgeons, but in a change in the nature of surgery itself...
...world's deftest job of land reclamation was going great guns this week in southern Australia. Every fortnight, the Australian Mutual Provident (life insurance) Society plans to turn out a new, 1,000-acre farm. The land it uses is part of the "Ninety-Mile Desert" southeast of Adelaide, covered until recently only with sparse, unhealthy scrub...