Word: deftness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like any ranking Army officer, General Lyman Louis Lemnitzer, 59, has a soldier's talents for open warfare, but like few he has a diplomat's deft touch for the quiet, unsung victory. Last week President Eisenhower, no mean soldier-diplomat himself, picked General Lemnitzer as the next Army Chief of Staff, to succeed retiring General Maxwell Taylor, 57, next July 1. Lemnitzer was the only new man on the President's list of appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Air Force's General Nathan Farragut Twining, 61, was reappointed chairman; Chief of Naval...
...square-faced, silver-haired newspaperman kept vigil last week while the chamber's board voted on a new president. When the vote was in, the newspaperman got a good story for his paper-and a surprise: he had been elected president. His name: Erwin Dain Canham, 55, deft-penciled, wide-ranging editor of the Christian Science Monitor and the first newspaperman in the chamber's long line of 32 presidents. Said Editor Canham: "I am intensely surprised but deeply grateful...
...second singles, Gerry Emmet dropped the varsity's only match of the day in five games. As the contest began, it appeared as though Emmet's deft shot-making would soon bring the matter to a close. With very little effort he ran off to a 2-0 lead with a 15-12 and 15-9 advantage in the first two games but then let up, and Amherst's Skip Voncks was just able to edge into victory, 17-16, 15-11 and 17-16 in the last three games...
...slender Andrés Gimeno, 21, won the Western Australian men's tennis title by a 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 victory over St. Louis' improving Earl ("Butch") Buchholz, 18, tag-along member of the victorious U.S. Davis Cup squad, flashed a game so crisp and deft that the experts were saying he might become the world's best...
Capote dramatizes his conversation with elaborate hand gestures. He has a deft trick of touching his tongue, presumably for loose tobacco ("I never smoke those filter-tips; nothing comes through"), and then touching his fingers lightly on a napkin in his lap. He has a high nervous laugh when excited about something, and postures his head in a series of attentive or thoughtful attitudes...