Word: flair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gesture for a lieutenant general. Hammon and his fellow marines would never forget it. But for Matthew Bunker Ridgway, a soldier who possesses a passionate sense of detail, an instinct for the bonds that unite a commander and his troops, and a nice flair for showmanship, it was no effort at all. A few minutes later the general climbed into his helicopter and whirred off to another sector of his front line...
...born in 1759, in an Ayrshire clay cottage built by his tenant-farming father. Within a week, the roof blew in on little Rab (no one ever called him "Bobbie"). He was too young to interpret the omen, but father Burns had a flair for failure. At nine, Rab was taken out of the little parish school and put to work on the farm. When he died at 37, it was the rheumatic heart acquired in youth not drink, that killed him. He once described his life as "an uphill gallop from the cradle to the grave...
...result was that in 1929, when Colbert knocked on the door of Manhattan's law firm, Larkin, Rathbone & Perry, the interviewer described him as "a personable young man with no recommendation from the Dean." Nevertheless, Colbert's bounce, flair and talk caught the fancy of Partner Nicholas Kelley, a Chrysler vice president, director and legal adviser. Kelley hired him as a law clerk at $2,100 a year-less than a single summer's earnings on the cotton market...
...other house has interchangeable lyric tenors of the quality of Jussi Bjoerling and Richard Tucker: baritones such as Leonard Warren and Robert Merrill; bassos such as Jerome Hines and Cesare Siepi; and dramatic sopranos such as Helen Traubel and Kirsten Flagstad, not to mention the good looks and comic flair of a Patrice Munsel...
...time around an obstacle course, kept fit by chopping wood. Although every inch a fighting general, he is also a literate soldier who has been discovered reading Marcel Proust. As a postwar theater commander in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, he showed administrative talent, and considerable diplomatic flair as the U.S. member of the U.N. Military Staff Committee...