Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College bridge players pit their skill against an English professor and one of the nation's foremost experts on the game in an exhibition match to be played at Phillips Brooks House Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock...
...Crile's skill brought him such patients as E. H. Harriman and William Randolph Hearst, thousands of others from all over the U.S.-he personally removed about 25,000 goiters. (Goiter removal is most frequent operation at Minnesota's Mayo and Boston's Lakey Clinics.) He devised his own operations for cancer of the lip and prolapse of the uterus, and advocated an operation on the coeliac ganglion (nickel-size nerve center above the kidneys) to bring down high blood pressure...
...story but a lesson in Commando tactics. With bagpipes wailing, the Commandos set out in an auxiliary cruiser. At dawn they slip overside into barges, swarm up the Norwegian cliffs and surprise a Nazi airfield. The camera dwells admiringly on their knife work and deadly hand-to-hand skill...
...units in the joint U.S.-Australian force under General Douglas MacArthur were the 32nd (Iron Jaw or Red Arrow) and 41st (Sunset) divisions, and the Fifth Air Force. General MacArthur cited them for skill and courage that "defeated a bold and aggressive enemy...
...kind of war. The textbooks did not tell George Kenney what he would find in the Southwest Pacific. It was a war for a cocky, enthusiastic little man who can inspire his flyers with his own skill for improvisation...