Word: excelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birth rates after World War II in many countries created a shortage of the manpower necessary to keep up with the demands of rising economies. Womanpower was a logical solution. Moreover, tests have shown that in such areas as manual dexterity, eye-hand coordination and depth perception, women generally excel...
...Years Before the Mast; Suddenly, Last Summer) and numerous Broadway plays (Death of a Salesman, A Man for All Seasons); by accidental strangulation; in Hollywood. An outspoken and intensely serious professional, Dekker once labeled the stage "a horrible place in which to make a living," yet continued to excel as the craggy, dark-voiced heavy whose villainy always seemed convincingly human...
DeMille's mastery of spectacle stems not only from his ability to create convincing lavishness, but from his amazing sense of detail. Few directors excel him at dressing sets; from, palaces to tents, every human habitation looks as though people had lived there for years. In the temple courtyard, hawkers sell miniatures of the 90-foot high idol within, which the audience hasn't even seen yet. The Philistine decor combines Minoan and Canaanite motifs, an archaeological accuracy that surely means little to the public, but much to DeMille...
...Physiologist Bronk set up a small graduate school in 1954, a year after he became president; in 1965 he had Rockefeller retitled from an institute to a university. Resisting the expansionist impulse, Bronk has insisted that R.U. remain small in order to concentrate on "areas where we can really excel." As a result, R.U. "appoints" no more than 30 new students a year out of the 170 candidates recommended for admission by scholars around the world. So conscientious are its standards that R.U. will sometimes turn away an otherwise ideal candidate simply because it feels that he will advance further...
...much smaller world than competitive tennis. Because it lacks prestige, relatively few star althletes play squash seriously. This is much less true in tennis. Gonzalez Sterne, and Terrell generally dominate their opponents in squash. This Spring they must add determination to their racket savvy, if they are to excel on the tennis courts...