Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...especially to the educational third of HEW, which will be his particular baby-Hunt will bring a topnotch administrative ability and a knack for inspiring the people who work for him. In the field of education on a national level, Hunt leaves the specifics to others, thinks in terms of broad policy, good public relations and orderly progress. "It's not enough," he once said, "that each of us recognizes and accepts his personal accountability for teaching. It is essential that we have a clearly stated and accepted philosophy of education that expresses our values and that guides...
...Francisco Goya died of the infection that deafened him at 47, he would be remembered only as a Spanish court painter with a knack for candid likenesses. But the tortuous, stone-silent path he entered in middle age led steeply upward, and he clambered gloomily to greatness. The blackest and harshest of the old masters, Goya made bitterness a virtue and found pessimism a fountain of youth. A big traveling show of Goya drawings, on display this week in San Francisco, proves once again how great his final achievement...
...most obvious choice to take over, as Acting Majority Leader, was Kentucky's Senator Earle C. Clements, the Democratic whip, who, like Johnson, has the invaluable knack of staying on good terms with all shades of Democratic Senate factionalism. Clements is a quiet, industrious, somewhat ponderous behind-the-scenes operator-but he has yet to demonstrate that he can fill the big Senate shoes of Lyndon Johnson...
Insurance. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Louella Juarez, 35, sued to recover $6,024.20 after the dance studio with which she signed up for a "lifetime" of lessons said that she needed another "lifetime" course really to get the knack...
...nurse or other white woman in 18 months, WACs would be locked within their barbed-wire compound at all times except when escorted by armed guards." The New Guinea WACs, as everywhere, did their job-in this case mostly mail censorship. Said their male supervisor: "[They] possess an uncanny knack for picking up hidden security breaches...