Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing that two years of football since the war have made obvious is that the Band is a fine organization. It has increased in size, skill, and repertoire over its prewar equivalent...
Boom & Byline. In a political year, almost every man is a politician of sorts. But most men merely play at it. Roy Roberts devotes a great part of his skill, energy and time to it. He almost lost his amateur standing in 1936, when he guided Alf Landon into the worst debacle the Republican Party ever suffered. But in 1948 he made most of the 14-carat professionals look tarnished. He was closest to the biggest political story of the year-the Eisenhower boom...
...their officers intend to bring them back safely without having fought a battle, and the war turns out to be a great practical joke, on which the Americans who are giving the Greeks their weapons are also victims. Fodor writes so well and develops his plot with such quiet skill that the reader may think at first that the story is another realistic war experience and not the superb comedy of modern times that...
Here is a novel that is all skill and brilliance on the outside-English Novelist Clewes knows his way around words-but morally sick at the core. As such, it seems symptomatic of much current writing...
...rehabilitation programs pays off. Take, for instance, a sophomore whose service cost him both his legs. After a year in the program, the man became a competent volleyball player, and now has developed so much skill in handball that he frequently beats program director Lloyd C. Harper...