Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class of '31). He joined the Manhattan law firm of White & Case, lawyers for Big Steel, and was its associate counsel during the investigation of the steel industry by the Temporary National Economic Committee shortly before World War II. A methodical worker with a quiet wit and a knack for getting along with people, Blough became U.S. Steel's general solicitor in 1942, and executive vice president four years...
...playing TV games, all panel members agree that the most important knack is to be able to listen. Explains Arlene Francis: "Newcomers on a panel are always too tense to listen well, and sometimes will ask questions that have already been answered." Also, she and her cohorts know from sad experience that if the first contestant is not interesting or gay or entertaining, the show generally does not get off the ground: "Once you get started well, the mood is easy to sustain, but after a bad beginning, you have to fight to recapture your audience...
Though some of Philosopher Hoffer's aphorisms are fatuous, The Passionate State of Mind demonstrates again his knack for neat, 17th century-style brooding on 20th century problems. Samples...
...coming tennis amateur needs is a taste for the right clothes, a talent for cocktail-party chatter and a superior knack for belting tennis balls. It is no trick at all to parlay such gifts into a year-round, expenses-paid vacation-wives and kids included. But many young players are not satisfied with such mild rewards. After he won the U.S. singles title in the summer of 1953, crew-cut Tournament Traveler Tony Trabert announced his intentions: for another season or so he would make a name for himself in amateur tennis; then he would be open to offers...
...credit for all this must go, in part at least, to Ulen. "He just has that knack, that eye for talent, and an awful lot of patience," said freshman coach Bill Brooks. It was because of this knack, this eye, and this patience, as shown over a quarter of a century, that swimming alumni last spring established the Harold S. Ulen trophy for the team's most valuable senior...