Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jester called upon one of the useful 'Poonsters, Harry Meryman, for the was known to be gifted mechanically. He had connected the telephone to the radio, and he had made the lights blink; now he would turn his skill to a more essential task than trying to induce merryment. Thus it was that the Narthex emeritus journeyed to the wilds of Dublin, N. H. and there did perfect a marvelous machine which ran on steam...
...ragged knife presumes the sleeping skill...
Roger ("Terrible") Touhy knew all the rackets: liquor, bank stickups, kidnapping. So did his pal, Basil ("The Owl") Banghart, whose skill with a machine gun was a Chicago gangland legend. Both were tough and smart as horsewhips, and proud of being redhots. When a prison official asked Banghart his occupation The Owl boasted: "I'm a thief...
...said Admiral Nimitz, "this operation epitomizes the complete unity with which all the fighting forces in the Pacific -the Army and Navy, the Marine Corps and Coast Guard-are coordinating their strength and skill against the enemy...
...confusion of defeat after the Nazis seized their country, Yugoslav soldiers made their way to their ancient refuge, the hills. There Mihailovich, the ranking officer, assumed command of guerrilla fighting. His valor and the skill of his soldiers captured the world's headlines. To much of the outside world, Mihailovich became a symbol of freedom.*But to many Yugoslav patriots, intellectuals and peasants, he became a symbol of the discredited Belgrade government clique and the Kara George dynasty which first gave Yugoslavia dictatorial King Alexander, then, after his assassination, a Fascist-minded set of regents while King Peter...