Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown's administrators have little trouble with either the city of Providence or the state of Rhode Island. Indeed each side is constantly striving to co-operate with the other. In 1956, when the land on which Brown's new Dexter-Aldrich athletic facilities are being built was first offered for sale, President Barnaby C. Keeney confidently expressed Brown's interest and need for the property in the knowledge that "our relations with the city have long been mutually beneficial...
...Herm has made his mark in Hollywood very quickly. Cohen's first venture into the motion picture world came at the age of 12 when he worked as an usher in Detroit. By the time he was 16, he was house manager of Detroit's Dexter Theatre. After two and a half years in the Army, he returned to Detroit as manager of the Fox Theatre, the country's third largest movie house. Herm left Detroit for Hollywood...
...Dexter Keezer, McGraw-Hill Economic Adviser: Economic recovery is in the making - and pretty largely without regard to what the new Administration does or says about...
...Taussig took one Joseph A. Schumpeter, old-time socialist of the Austro-German school, into his own home, built him up as an international authority in economics. Unwittingly Taussig also aided the career of Harry Dexter White who, because of his Harvard prestige, became in our Treasury Department, the chief financial policy maker. He repaid the U.S.A. as we all know by becoming a Soviet agent...
...Hollywood version of the Kurosawa story, the seven samurai become seven Texas gunmen (Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter). One day. Bravo Brynner is approached by some Mexican farmers who offer him everything they have if he will protect their village from a bandit chieftain (Eli Wallach). Unexpectedly moved, he accepts their minuscule fee, recruits the other six, and together they ride out on their errand of mercy. Why? Not one of them is really sure until the bandit gang is wiped out and the three surviving gunmen say farewell. "You have...