Word: flair
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Young Heath first showed a flair for music in his early teens, when he was attending a grammar school near Broad-stairs. After six years there, he landed a coveted organ scholarship to Balliol, Oxford's most earnest college and Harold Macmillan's alma mater. Heath played the organ at chapel and conducted the choir. He majored in politics, philosophy and economics, but was torn between the law and music as a profession. In 1940 he joined the Royal Artillery as a private in the ranks, fought through four of the Six: France, Belgium, Holland and Germany...
Unmistakably Polish. Kowalski, now 54, is an unusual fellow. The son of an immigrant ironworker, he was born in Meriden, quit high school after two years to join the Army as a private. Two of his teachers, impressed by his great flair for mathematics, talked him into taking competitive exams for West Point. He won appointment, graduated 68th in the 260-man class of 1930, later did graduate work at M.I.T. and Columbia. He served in Europe during World War II, after V-E day helped direct the dismantling of Hitler's war machine, later served under MacArthur...
Even if she has the right amounts of fashion flair and cash to aspire to the lists of the best-dressed, the woman with the wrong amount of bosom will never make it. Couturiers do not design for the bosomy woman; her body disrupts the line of their clothes. Fashion photographers have no use for her; she throws unseemly shadows. In style-conscious Manhattan, the woman with breasts is out; the flat-chested look has been in for almost as long as men have been designing women's clothes, and in with a vengeance ever since...
...tireless concern for detail, plus a flair for profitable experimentation, has made tough, touchy Andres Soriano one of the Philippines' top-ranking tycoons, with an estimated personal fortune of $80 million...
...with infinite relish. "My faults," he cried, "are obvious. There can be no doubt I have my full share. I suffer from cacoëthes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, from vanity and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn, an inveterate flair for histrionics." Democrat Henry Fountain Ashurst was off on one of the orations that were the delight of the Senate from...