Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike the diving, the swimming could stand some improvement. It is essentially dull to watch, and the mermaids do it in a ragged and unsure manner. Successful commercial swimming' depends largely on precision and grace, two qualities which are not conspicuously present in the water numbers...
...only a projection of my father complex ... Oh, I thank Thee that I am not like the rest of men, those nasty people, such as the Christian there in the back of the temple, who thinks that he is a sinner, that his soul stands in need of grace ... I may have an Oedipus complex, but I have...
...that paved the way for mail contracts. In island chains and jungles, his crews hacked out airports, strung together radio and weather networks. The better to feed his mushrooming lines, he formed a brood of subsidiaries and affiliates, of which he still has 18; the biggest are Pan American-Grace Airways and Panair do Brasil.** Whenever competitors tried to horn in, quick-thinking, quick-moving Juan Trippe managed to outfly them, outflank them or simply outlast them...
...made him "definitely milder-in fact, more peaceable and readier to see that, after all, one is in the same boat with one's opponents . . . To say 'yes' came to seem more important than to say 'no' . . . Theologically, the message of God's grace came to seem more urgent than the message of God's law, wrath, accusation and judgment...
National said it was negotiating to sell 346,000 of its shares to W. R. Grace & Co. (joint owner with Pan American Airways Corp. of South America's Panagra). Of the total, President Joseph Peter Grace Jr. had already agreed to buy 174,000 National shares. Joe Grace, who has headed the shipping company since 1946, thought it should branch out even more in the air-travel field. National also was dickering for Pan Am to buy 346,000 shares on its own hook, and agree to interchange some routes and equipment with National. Neither company would have control...