Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accomplished singer, composer and conductor, Chu had a special knack for getting along with the young. Soon after his arrival in Bangkok, they were flocking by the hundreds to listen to his lectures and to hear him play and sing. Chu extended his visitor's visa and took up more or less permanent residence at the leading Chinese anti-Communist headquarters...
...eighth-graders idolized him. They called him Paul, and "they followed him around," one mother reported, "as if he were a Pied Piper." At lunchtime so many flocked to his table that he decided to use the hour to give extracurricular Spanish lessons. In class he had a knack for arousing the interest of the most unlikely pupils. One day he gave a farm boy who had always hated poetry a piece of paper and said, "Now, imagine you are seated at the plow. What do you see?" The result, says Richer, "was a truly beautiful poem. Every...
...Gunner Asch and his friend Vierbein run afoul of discipline and authority in an artillery battery. The trouble with Vierbein is that the mere sight of a corporal or a sergeant is enough to reduce him to terrified obedience. He is an unsoldierly-looking fellow with a built-in knack for getting into trouble (when he is detailed to beat carpets for the sergeant major's wife, she offers herself to him on a carpet just as her husband comes along). Inevitably, he is a butt for all the sadistic tricks that a bullying noncom can devise...
...London's Palladium wept on hearing again her old, nostalgic Over the Rainbow), catapulted her higher than ever in movies and on TV. But somehow the Lufts' rainbow ended in a pot of debts, piled up, according to Luft's friends, because of his unhappy knack of betting on also-ran horses. Last week, after nearly four years of marriage and two children, Judy, 32, sued Luft, 39, for divorce. Grounds: extreme mental cruelty...
...sparkling basketball, but there was no need to. The Crimson made only 19 of 74 field goal attempts, and took a good many of these when no one was covering the backboard. Princeton scored on an adequate 36 percent--22 for 62--of its floor tries, and had a knack of coming through with an important basket when the losers showed signs of life...