Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bowlers, most of them middle-aged and middle-thick, were leisurely, almost casual, seemingly unimpressed with their own skill. Among the spectators behind the brilliantly lighted alleys there was no excitement. Once, when a ball hung on the alley's edge, then curved in for a strike, a woman shouted: "What if it does come out of the gutter?-it looks good on the score...
Among the passersby, there are many who are uninjured. Distraught by the magnitude of the disaster, most of them rush by and none conceives the thought of organizing help on his own initiative. During these days the Japanese displayed little initiative, preparedness, and organizational skill to meet a catastrophe...
...usually causes a relatively painless death within six months after diagnosis. The doctors, who might have removed Sandra's kidney if the condition had been discovered sooner, shook their heads. The medical men knew better than anyone else how often modern medicine, with all its touted knowledge and skill, has to stand back and accept defeat...
Katherine Cornell has the difficult role in "Antigone" and the Tyrant"--the role of unreasoning Antigone, moved by the emotions and not by the mind. She plays it with a skill that makes the part really Antigone, not Cornell, sacrificing most of the audience appeal she could have produced with a few slips from the rigid interpretation. Codrie Hardwicke, on the other hand, has a part to be envied in Creon, although this is not to say that he fails in any way to do it justice. Horace Braham as the Chorus is worthy of mention for his fine delivery...
...fanaticism that had made its legend. It still fought for a program of nationalization of land and industry, rehabilitation of the Indians, solidarity of all oppressed peoples and classes, as though it were revealed religion. It still tangled with Communists and conservatives in the streets with the ferocity and skill of some 15 years' underground discipline. And still Apra preferred to hold power without office. But when Apra pushed a law through Congress by flexing its muscles in Lima's streets (TIME, Dec. 17), and no Cabinet minister dared publicly to protest, President Bustamente became convinced that...