Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enter politics in 1942, as a Republican candidate for Congress from Connecticut's Fourth District, she switched from a career as a successful author and playwright (The Women, Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Margin for Error). In her first campaign she showed a sureness of political touch and a flair for the dramatic political phrase which delighted her audiences, and got her elected. When she arrived in Washington as a freshman Congresswoman, she was appointed to the important House Military Affairs Committee. During the term she kept up a sharp, running attack on the New Deal, voted a prolabor...
...success, femininity must go hand in hand with practicality and adaptability. "Much more than a run of successful men, the successful women executives show a flair for moving with the situation ... If a business woman meets violent disagreement from a man she knows only slightly, she cannot shame or flabbergast her opponent without being labeled a battle-ax . . . She is always a salesman on the side . . . Successful women know who they are: they don't confuse themselves with Joan of Arc or Sarah Bernhardt or Florence Nightingale and, unlike some male executives, they don't confuse themselves with...
...Mongol Empire, which tells the story of Genghis Khan and the world he made, is a splendid slice of history. First published in German in 1938, it is the work of a Russian scholar with a flair for narrative. As it courses back & forth across Eurasia, following the fierce Mon gol horsemen, the book reads less like a scholar's chronicle than a majestic folk epic...
...paper was running second only to Hearst's Examiner. But when postwar newsprint and labor costs began climbing, the Chronicle, like other dailies, was hard hit. The price of the paper went up to 10?; then Smith put into operation a plan, which with his usual flair, he called the "Theory of Foresight," i.e., expanding the coverage and staff to give the readers more for their money, even though earnings were skidding...
...most interesting new U.S. novelist was a 38-year-old Negro, Ralph Ellison. His Invisible Man was the picaresque epic of a Southern Negro trying to find a place in a white man's world. Not always in focus, its flair and vitality nevertheless made it one of the year's standouts. From another world was Louis Kronenberger's witty verbal quadrille, Grand Right and Left, about a bored billionaire who collects people instead of butterflies...