Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paradoxical knack for the practical has long made him wish he had tried the plastic arts. "Friends think I might have made a pretty good sculptor," he says...
Servetus' trouble was his instinctive knack for making himself a one-man minority. As Historian Bainton concludes: "Servetus could not agree altogether with anybody." His minority stand on medicine was scientifically useful, and, as an independent astrologer, he gained the confidence of the court of Francis I. But his free-lance theology, at a time when Reformation Europe was quickly forming up into tightly disciplined Catholic and Protestant camps, was not to go unpunished...
...chief judges of the U.S. circuit courts), and thus has an administrative function over all of the nation's federal courts. Warren's knowledge of the problems of government and his administrative ability would serve him well in that phase of his work. In addition, his knack for pulling opposing forces together would help to prevent discord on the often-divided court...
Department colleagues say that George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, has a rare knack of putting people at ease. They are also quick to cite his readiness to cut red tape; or to voice an opinion on matters that displease him. Kistiakowsky has devoted most of his life to fighting those things that displease him: first the Bolsheviks, then the Nazis, and again the Communists...
...Knack to Manage. David Brown has done more than show Britain's manufacturers how to move faster. He has been far ahead of most in finding ways of improving morale and productivity of his workers and developing his executives from their ranks. When a 25-acre estate and mansion near one plant became vacant in 1944, Brown transformed it into a dining room and social center for his workers. He turned his former home at Huddersfield into a guest house for his executives...