Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plymouth will have a continental flair, a lower window line, shortened hood and, reportedly, a one-piece curved windshield...
...CRIMSON editor Sack had a neat flair for high drama and low humor, too often constricted here within the inelastic form of a news story. He runs afoul of no such limitations in The Butcher. Sack's book splits roughly into halves. The first half outlines the expedition's halting progress to the base of the mountain. It is very funny. He starts from the labor pains of the expedition, when it was busy accumulating radios which refused to work and storing breakfast food--eagerly pressed into the hands of the climbers by an enterprising cereal manufacturer--in the living...
...Visitors to his exhibit of camera work at M.I.T. last week found him dabbling in what is, for Karsh, a brand new subject: alongside his famous portraits of Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt and Bernard Shaw hung an impressive series of industrial photographs done with the master's usual flair for drama. In a steel plant and an auto factory, he had found workers posed like ballerinas around a slender ribbon of steel, had photographed paint sprayers conferring like brain surgeons, and had turned the molten metal slopping from a ladle into a flowing abstraction...
...between East & West. For Joseph Stalin in those 30 years has ruthlessly consolidated power in his own country, survived a catastrophic war, shown a genius for organization, an ability to raise up obedient lieutenants and to discard them at will, a talent for calculated and patient diplomacy and a flair for timing. Last week, at 72, the old pro was waging what editorial writers-using a habitual but meaningless phrase-called a new "peace offensive...
Struggle. The U.S. Army drafted him in 1942. He was sent to the U.S. Fifth Bomber Command in Brisbane, Australia as an aviation mechanic, but his flair for writing got him a transfer to the U.S. Air Force 10th Historical Unit. In uniform in Australia, and again as a sergeant in the Philippines, he sought out the Communist Party. "What impressed me most was the armed struggle and that the Party here was at a more advanced stage of revolution," he wrote to a friend. After his Army discharge, he took up Party propaganda work in New York, wrote...