Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...besides throwing your weight around, you like to write what you think of movies, books, and the College dramatic groups, or have a knack with cartoons, the editorial board is the spot...
...climb to the top in English politics." If the prophecy was a poor one, the charge was just. Young Churchill, a rough rider in Cuba before Teddy Roosevelt ever got there, author, soldier, hero and cabinet minister all before he reached the age of 40, never did get the knack of seeing things from the narrow perspective of lesser men. Where they saw despair, he saw hope; where they saw defeat, he saw challenge; where they saw surrender, he saw opportunity to attack. When in 1940 such darkness as Britain had never known loomed over his country, Winston looked...
...most successful mechanical toys-"Zippo the Climbing Monkey" and the "Alabama Coon Jigger," a tap-dancing minstrel. Most competitors thought these two items were finished. Marx proved them wrong: he sold 16 million. Now he has 14 factories spread from Erie. N.Y. to South Africa. Marx has the knack of picking "hot" new toys, and mass-producing old standbys to cut the price and broaden their markets. Samples: roller skates for $1.60 (v. $4 for some other brands); electric trains for $8 (v. $17.75 and up for Lionels...
...engagingly he writes! He has the poet's knack for composing a word picture that is sharp yet has the distracting detail cropped away. He has the modern poet's virtue of fashioning simple sentences with simple words. For instance he says of his first book. "The poems were bad Keats, nothing else--oh well, bad Whitman too. But I sure loved them. Where does a young man get the courage for such abortions? I can tell you my need must have been great. There is not one thing of the slightest value in the whole thin booklet--except...
Stretching the String. Like Henry Kaiser himself, Leo Harvey has the knack of getting what he wants from the Government and working a shoestring into a golden cord. His shoestring was the one-man Los Angeles machine shop which he started in 1913. Born in Latvia, Harvey had learned the machinist's trade in Germany before coming to the U.S. at 20. His shop prospered with World War I orders for parts for the Curtiss "Jenny," afterward, did a tidy business machining brass and aluminum parts. World War II's demand for aluminum plane parts spread his company...