Word: homework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phenomenally sharp ears and eyes for the telling anecdote and the detail that vividly catches the mood. He has a homing instinct for the essentials in a complex situation. He is a master of the art of brain-picking-and of choosing the right brain to pick. From careful homework, he knows precisely what information his story needs, and can extract it with the efficiency of an automatic orange squeezer...
...into every niche of his new land, sea and air empire. Once installed, he drove up to Capitol Hill, appeared before Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, answered questions with a candor that made senatorial friends, and in detail that showed he had done his homework. He stepped confidently into the high society of international diplomacy, went to London and Bonn and wound up at the NATO conference in Paris beside-if slightly to the rear of-President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles...
...next year's collective bargaining. And at the Pentagon the mess in missilery and the mis-organization of command, as shown up by the Johnson Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee hearings, was such as to raise serious questions as to whether Commander in Chief Dwight D. Eisenhower had done his homework as a military administrator...
...Kamakovsky spoke eight month's worth of English which he learned last winter by going to the city after an eight and a half hour workday to take a four and a half hour language class. Arriving home between 8 and 9 in the evening, he would begin his "homework" for the factory...
...Seattle's teachers and school officials have taken brainy Bob's service philosophically. "Elvis and learning," says one official, "seem an impossible combination, but I'm for it if it can be done." Adds Bob about his homework kick: "I don't know quite where it's taking me, but it's nice to hear the kids so mannerly. I must say I'm far, far more impressed by the questions they ask than the records they request...