Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife set to work building another house, but they sold that one too-and the next, and the next. By last week, John Long, 38, had built nearly 10,000 houses worth more than $100 million, had risen to the top of the U.S. home-building industry with a flair for showmanship and a knack of building the most house for the least money...
...Only the former commander of the soldiers is left, and he is reduced to cannibalism. With all its obvious symbolism, its irony, its implicit plea for man's humanity to man, Death in That Garden will best be remembered as a tale of adventure brought off with literary flair and an almost savage imagination...
Maurice Van Hemelrijck, 57, a man with a flair for dramatic decisions, is Belgium's Minister for the Congo-and hopes very much to be the last one. Long before the bloody Léopoldville riots last January, he had warned his government that unless it began giving the Congo democracy and some sort of independence, it would face "catastrophe" and lose the colony altogether. When he flew into Léopoldville last week, he got the kind of ugly welcome that France's Premier Guy Mollet once got in Algiers. Angry white settlers shut up their shops...
Ferras' legato passages spun out in long, honeyed strands of sound; his attack in the cadenza was as crisp as vellum. Throughout, he displayed a sweeping, rhythmic flair, a fluent, coolly lustrous tone. His Brahms had about it a quality of molded passion that far older artists might envy...
Skutt's flair was for more than public relations. He decided the real way to build up the company was to sweeten the benefits. He did this by making policies noncancellable by the company, writing income-protection policies to cover the whole family, and liberally interpreting the policy clauses in paying claims. In the 40 years before Skutt's presidency Mutual paid out $250 million in claims. In his ten years on the job it has paid out $750 million. The rise in premium income was equally dramatic: $187 million last year, against $77 million...