Word: knacks
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...killer instinct. Such is not the case for the Harvard women’s hockey team’s humble freshman, Julie Chu, who also happens to be one of the Crimson’s deadliest offensive weapons, a potent goal-scorer with blazing speed and an incredible knack for finishing...
According to those who know him as a child, Ferrell didn’t at first appear to have a knack for comedy...
Maddox concedes that although her father was a doctor and her mother was a square dance caller, “everyone in the family has always had a great knack for telling a good narrative line...
...gave him the job of restructuring Michelin North America after it bought Uniroyal in 1990. By the time Renault hired him and sent him to Tokyo to fix Nissan (which Renault controls), he had picked up five languages (Japanese is his sixth), a blunt decision-making style and a knack for blending corporate cultures...
...times. In one scene, Mára's wife, who makes ceramic piggy banks for a living, switches from pig shapes to human butts with ears, suddenly a hot commodity. Many of Hrebejk's characters are ambivalent - capable of great heroism and craven cowardice, all while displaying an uncanny knack for survival. In Divided We Fall, which Hrebejk considers his best film, the main character has second thoughts about hiding his Jewish friend and eventually - without turning him over - joins the Nazis to protect his family. "Some consider this excessive relativizing," Hrebejk says. "But this is how I see people...