Word: knowhow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Breslin presents no clearcut evidence that O'Neill had anything more to do with Nixon's demise than other more publicized figures--Jaworski, or Sirica. O'Neill is really just an above average hack politician, risen to a position of power through a certain measure of talent, political knowhow, and luck. But because Breslin identifies so heavily with O'Neill (they are both Irish, fat, and aggressive), he tends to make O'Neill seem a more important force last summer than he actually was. O'Neill was doing nothing more than the ordinary politician does all the time: going with...
...promise perhaps--as one staff member said, "He said what every body wanted to hear." But there is a tentative inclination on the part of Real Paper staff members to give Linsky his chance to shape the paper without breaking it. They don't credit him with much journalistic knowhow--a recent stint as a Globe editorial writer is his only serious credential--but even a staff member who called Linsky an "oily, greasy guy" concedes that "it's possible that Linsky cares enough about the paper to do a good job with it." It is about time, the staff...
Gatsby might have given Hollywood its bonanza formula. And Hollywood would not for pennies or cigars fail to capitalize on it--love and money, love and money. All the masterminds of Hollywood, all its technical knowhow and commercial wizardry, its public relations genius and its statistician's calculations had divined the hungry nerve of the public and hooked it on the Gatsby formula. One could get giddy on the charm in the promise even as the very existence of Hollywood testified to its exhaustion...
Harkness had the technical knowhow and the recruiting prowess to make any school into a hockey factory. But he needed a place that condoned that kind of program, a place whose academic reputation would be strong enough to attract people who didn't just want three letters in hockey to show for four years at college. Cornell gave Harkness carte blanche to construct his awesome machines, admitted the Canadian imports he wanted, covered him when he went out of bounds (as in the McGuinn case), and sat back to enjoy the results-five Ivy championships, four ECAC titles...