Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when it bought Colonel McCormick's Times-Herald and became a morning monopoly. In ad linage, the paper ranks third in the nation, behind only the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. "I don't play girl editor," says Mrs. Graham, who has demonstrated a knack for putting the right person in the right...
...Utah, who takes whimsical yet passionate whacks at his own profession but never falls into the academic solemnities that riddle most books of this kind. "To learn," writes Eble, "is to love." Students ought to revel in discovery, he adds, but educators, from grade to grad school, have a knack for taking most of the joy out of learning...
...Wrong Box is a deliberate fraud, with the prime example being the extra scene to get Sellers' name on the marquee. Audiences here have come to expect freshness, a fast pace, and genuine, if strange, with from the English imports, as in the Beatles' movie, The Knack, or even Morgan. But producer-director Bryan Forbes is not a Richard Lester. There was no valid reason to use the Victorian setting except to provide some lush decorative backgrounds and to hurl extremely naive lampoons at a sensibility that has already been lampooned to death...
Harvard also received a pair of third-quarter scores from reserve forward Haven Pell, who lights up all over when he scents a goal in the making and with his shooting knack usually makes...
Britain's "wanted men" have a knack for avoiding police. James White, a member of the 1963 Great Train Robbery gang, posed as a fisherman in Kent for 21-years before he was caught. Baby Strangler John Edward Allen lived for two years within 200 yards of a police station, was spotted only when his curiosity led him to the station bulletin board to look for his own wanted notice. Harry Roberts may not be so lucky. "Even if Roberts remained free for two years," noted the Observer, "every policeman in Britain would still go to sleep remembering...