Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diplomat Patterson, a former RKO executive, thought he saw his duty clearly. "We are trying to work out here in Guatemala," he later explained, "a pattern for containing Communism and injustice to U.S. companies everywhere." But he never seemed to get the knack of dealing with touchy, prideful Latins...
When the sun was shining outdoors and Demuth turned his lapidary instinct on the poppies, cyclamen and zinnias in his mother's garden, or the fruits and vegetables for her kitchen, the results were sparkling. He had the knack of putting flowers into many-faceted, highly polished pictures without seeming to disarrange their leaves and petals. The driest of artists, he knew how to keep the bloom on a peach or the dew on a blossom. His talent had never been robust; the fact that his best works were evocations of things so elusive and so close to perfection...