Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time in the Polo Grounds, he teed off on a three-and-one pitch and lofted it over the leftfield roof for a homer. His batting average started to climb. In the field he could do no wrong, did much that was phenomenal. He had an unconscious knack for doing the spectacular, an uncanny instinct for anticipating batters and baserunners. Once, when he dove out from under his cap (Mays frequently loses his cap) to catch a sinking line drive, he reached back, caught his cap in one hand and the ball in the other. Against the Dodgers...
...defense and attack can do. Down South, Phil Waring, Monk Aiello, and Ed Curtis proved they could pour in goals against the nation's strongest defenses--except for Navy. Curtis surprised by tallying two more than Waring, last year's top scorer in the nation, and Aiello matched Curtis knack at setting them up. Lolli Coburn, Don Davidoff, John Lane, and John Taylor provided the reserve power lacking last year...
...resemblance to Garland is no accident. Marti Stevens has been collecting Garland records for a long time, and comparing them with records of the Prohibition Era's Helen Morgan, one of Marti's earliest collecting enthusiasms. She decided that her two favorites had the same vocal knack: "A kind of heartbreak, over-the-rainbow. it's-got-to-happen-tomorrow quality. It kills people. It always kills me." She began to try for the same thing in her own singing...
...Roosevelt biographers with a fine photographic likeness to go by. Oyster Bay's leading Republican, who wrote some 25 books during his lifetime, was quite possibly the most literate tenant the White House ever had,* but he never let his erudition interfere with a good reporter's knack for saying what he had to say quickly and directly. This makes his letters one of the most readable sets of correspondence around, as well as one of the most instructive...
None of these stories is cheerful, but none of them lays on tragedy for false or startling effects. All of them have several good things in common: genuine sympathy for the human condition, writing that is lucid and individual, artfulness without artiness, and that rapidly declining virtue, the knack of telling a story...