Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foursquare for hiking, democracy, outdoor fellowship and against Communism. If not actually supported by Chancellor Adenauer's government, BDJ was benevolently regarded as a West German answer to the East zone's 2,000,000-strong Communist Freie Deutsche Jugend. It practiced direct action; it had a knack for breaking up Communist meetings and was expert at exposing the sheeplike West German businessmen who clandestinely supported the Reds as "just in case" insurance...
Bernice Judis, manager of Manhattan's radio station WNEW, has a publicist's knack for making news with the unusual. She has spiced her programing with such off-beat shows as José Ferrer Presents Shakespeare and A Treasury of the Spoken Word, featuring recordings by Bernard Shaw and James Joyce. Last week Manager Judis began a new show called Frankly Esoteric (Sun. 10 p.m.), which she thinks will appeal to no more than 2% of WNEW's listeners. Described as "the last word in avant-garde art," Frankly Esoteric offered such noncommercial items as Gertrude Stein...
With all his knack for rough-tough, sexy, spectacular productions, Hughes seemed unable to cope with the complex operations of a big studio. His insistence not only on policy-making but on such details as film-editing slowed RKO production to the extent that it lost $3,500,000 in 1950, has not started a new picture in the last three months...
...World War II Harrison went to Washington, where he served for four years as deputy to Nelson Rockefeller in the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Harrison the Government official proved an able administrator with a knack for homely diplomacy. Then came...
...head-indicating suspected brain damage. The worst patterns showed up in the younger boxers and in those who had been knocked out at least once. From this, the doctors guessed that older fighters and those who have never been knocked out either have punch-proof brains or an acquired knack for keeping their heads out of fists...