Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intelligent, infectious man with an appetite for hard work, a knack for profiting by others' mistakes, and ambitions to be elected some day to something bigger...
Died. Joseph Benedict Chifley, 65, Australian blacksmith's son who developed a knack for finance, became the Commonwealth's World War II Treasurer, its Labor Prime Minister from 1945 to 1949; of a heart attack; in Canberra...
...cameramen cattered from Seville to Seoul-the show goes to Chicago for the weather forecast with the help of a big weather map. Most of the background tricks are no novelty to TV audiences. What gives Camel News the edge is smooth production and Commentator Swayze's knack of tying the whole show together...
...clinching the Empire State deal, Stevens did not forget his old knack of picking up finder's fees. He not only acted as principal, but as one of the three brokers, stood to collect $166,000 for himself in broker's fees. Says hardheaded Roger Stevens: "We didn't buy it because it's the world's tallest building but because it looked like a cheap piece of real estate...
...parsley, and if you were to have these unadulterated bits of pure scientific knowledge concisely expressed by the most capable of living poets, you would have an awkward and incomplete summation of the Sermon on the Mount." Undoing the Damage. Along the way, Dr. Fisher learned the happy knack of combining psychiatric skill with commonsense, down-to-earth solutions. His attitude is clear in these Fisherisms: ¶"No man who has lived with cows on the prairie and who has studied them in the laboratory can fail to ask . . . why aren't there more contented people?" ¶On self...