Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blitz failed to conquer Britain, but the Government was criticized for later defeats and for rank inefficiency in war production. But always the surging eloquence and parliamentary skill of Winston Churchill overwhelmed criticism. Always the streamlined John Bull, the 20th-Century St. George, could get a vote of confidence. And always the same chorus rose: the Government's faults were attributed to the stodgy or obstructionist Old School Ties around the Prime Minister, rather than to the Prime Minister himself...
...Decisions in this war mature only slowly. There is no other enemy in the world with such artful skill in delaying decisions. The enemy confronting us is of a completely different cast of mind, a thing difficult for us to grasp. No enemy can postpone decisions like the Russians, and none can equal them in keeping the scales balanced by throwing in ever-fresh masses. Masses present a difficult problem both to the German High Command and to the German Army, which has to deal with them. On the other hand, the Soviet command lacks tactical consciousness and the feeling...
...Manhattan's shabby lower West Side, was left fatherless at three, had to go to work at twelve. He started as office boy in a General Electric subsidiary at $3 a week, never left the company, fought his way through the ranks as factory hand, clerk, accountant (a skill he picked up at night school). At 20 he was a factory manager, at 21 assistant superintendent. Then, a self-made man in the midst of G.E.'s engineering aristocracy, he rose to vice president in charge of the company's big appliance business executive vice president...
About 60% of the 50,000 asphyxial deaths represent newborn babies who never breathe at all or who gasp feebly and then turn blue. Dr. Flagg is famed for his skill in urging the breath of life into the newborn, and he believes that probably 20% of these 30,000 breathless babies could be saved-if 1) anesthetists more often took charge of them, 2) ordinary doctors learned more about the art of resuscitation and anesthesia...
...halves of the Harvard-North Carolina Pre-Flight game last Saturday to form the "First Lexington Squadron" ... The selectees will enter training and serve as a unit as part of the program commemorating the launching of the new carrier U.S.S. Lexington... Lieutenant Harold E. Williamson, recently commended for "courage, skill and endurance" during the Battle of the Coral Sea in which the old carrier was sunk, administered the each...