Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high school in three years, then moved on to New York's City College. He was president of the student Zionist organization - and one of the few Jewish students on friendly terms with the boys in the Roman Catholic Newman Club. But he did not really find his element until he entered Jewish Theological Seminary...
...such a fantastic rate that, almost at the very first meetings of the United Nations in 1946, the Western diplomats were rendered virtually helpless by the lack of adequate military power with which to back up their policies and to enforce their decisions. The diplomats ignored the power element. It is only with the last year that they have awakened to the problem and have begun to take progressive steps...
...play is basically a mystery and for a mystery to fulfill its purpose there must be some element of suspense to sustain the action, some unknown fact which either the audience or the actors would like to know...
Dean Acheson, who made the show run like clockwork, was in his element. Urbane and unruffled, he dealt with the Communists as a Groton football coach with a bunch of interloping ruffians who don't know the rules of the game. He out-talked the Reds without raising his voice, lectured Gromyko on parliamentary procedure, without once getting hot under his immaculate collar or ruffling the tips of his mustache...
Still in power, until further notice: Czech President Element Gottwald...