Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blanket." Farouk is a lonely man who would like to be gregarious but does not have the knack for it. He used to go to small cocktail parties given by an old American friend, but found that the other guests would freeze up in his presence and stand around silently. Finally he said to his host: "I'm not coming any more because I am a wet blanket...
...playing a lot of whist, poker and chess. One of his professors, anxious to know whether his course was too difficult, asked Foster how much time he had to spend studying for it. "I exaggerated a bit," Dulles recalls, "and told him one hour a week. I had a knack for exams. I could read the course book the night before and remember it well enough to pass...
...Leaders. Durable, level-headed Konrad Adenauer is undoubtedly the best available Chancellor for the Germans. To a people weary of bombast, Adenauer makes calm speeches; to a people fearful of the state, he gives unobtrusive administration. His chief stock in trade is still his shrewd knack for compromise. Rather than have the workers grow restive, Adenauer, the conservative Christian-Democrat, has given trade unions more responsibility than they ever had in Germany. In order to keep former soldiers from deserting to the radical Right, Adenauer the antimilitarist courteously receives influential former generals...
...behavior of his powerful relatives, at the court of Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid, who cut off heads with considerably less thought than Cromwell ever gave the matter. But Abdullah preferred to satisfy his great ambition-and check his many enemies-through subtler means. He seemed to have a natural knack for the subtle games of power. At Abdul Hamid's court the youngster, who was born and raised (until 10) in a harem, came to realize that the Ottoman Empire was on its way out. He sided with another of history's favorites-then still in her prime...
...years, Oxford University has come to depend on the solid talents of Professor Arthur Lehman Goodhart. He is a tall, burly man who dresses with a barrister's sobriety (striped pants and black coat) and has a knack for making the most complex legal principle seem simple. When he emerges from his rooms at "Univ" (University College) and strides briskly down "The High" to his lecture hall, a capacity crowd of students is always there to hear...