Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...justice, and organized the bloody bombing attacks of cafés and streets that have kept Algiers' French edgy for months. Often spotted by the French, Yacef evaded them with such ease and regularity that his fellow Moslems came to believe that he had baraka, the gift of good fortune that Allah bestows on a favored...
...average pay of their counterparts at the state-owned University of Oregon. But Reed's hard-put faculty members had some cheering news last week: an anonymous benefactor gave Reed an endowment fund worth some $400,000 that will be used solely to raise salaries. The new gift boosted Reed's take in the last 16 months to $1,200,000, a 64% rise in its endowment...
Amid the trite and untrue that shed a honky-tonk glare from the nation's TV sets come moments that pierce reality and live up to television's magic gift for thrusting millions of spectators at once into the lap of history in the making. As television moved this week into its second decade, chances were that some of the best of such moments in the new season would come from a dark, high-domed man with a hangdog look, an apocalyptic voice and a cachet as plain as his inevitable cigarette. His name: Edward R. (for Roscoe...
Alarms & Excursions. Beyond that, as solid a reason as any for Murrow's edge is simply that he is a fine reporter with sight and sound; he has a gift for capturing actuality in its moods and nuances as well as its meaning. Many a veteran of printer's ink has been, in the words of one of them, "faintly scandalized that such good reporting can be done by a man who never worked on a newspaper in his life." Fellow reporters have nicknamed Murrow "the Professor" after his academic past and "the Bishop" for his solemn cadences...
...landlady, who is 25 years mate-hungrier than the schoolteacher, baits her own sex lines and reels in the poor bachelor. And so it goes. Though his bawdy and sole theme is sex, Author Caldwell tells his tales with an easy colloquial style and the born storyteller's gift of making the reader want to know what happens next...