Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That they do so is due in no small part to Mr. Lovett, and his knack for the diplomatic intrusion of new ideas. Notwithstanding the popular impression that the Air Corps is a young man's branch, with young ideas, the U.S. Air Corps, like the rest of the Army, has its share of ranking oldsters who are sot in their ways. Part of Secretary Lovett's job is to unsot them...
...with a Knack...
...story is not complete. A job well done and Brigadier General Smith becomes Major General Smith. What happened to the first-class private who, not even dignified by name, "just had a hell of a knack for buildin-things...
...Spelling, and therefore not very intelligible, called his Lady to help him read it. Between them they pick'd out the meaning of all but the yf, which they could not understand. The Lady propos'd calling her Chambermaid: for Betty, says she, has the best knack at reading bad Spelling of any one I know. Betty came, and was surprised, that neither Sir nor Madam could tell what yf was. 'Why,' says she, 'y f spells Wife; what else can it spell?' And, indeed, it is a much better, as well as shorter...
...knew he'd learned a lot from the course. Not facts, no, but a certain savoir-faire that had served him in the best of stead in all the courses he had taken. He had picked up the knack of taking lecture notes and he had discovered that you could and should get away with a minimum of reading. He had learned how to tell what was the important part of a lecture or a chapter. The course had taught him how to get down to work and how to organize a disturbing disarray of dates and names...