Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...task of bringing this country back to prosperity in a peaceful world is enormous, but with clear purpose, understanding and skill, it can be done. We should not, after the most devastating war of all times, expect too much too fast, even in this country with its great material resources and relative prosperity. . . . We should be able to expect, however, an orderly America, opportunity for work, and a resumption of our economic and social progress. Above all, we should expect that America will be kept the land of freedom and opportunity...
...Joseph Smith Jr., founder and prophet of Mormonism, possessed a personality so powerful and fascinating that men, and women too, have sought down the years to "know his heart." One of these is Mormon-born (but Mormon no more) Fawn M. Brodie. What she has learned she tells with skill and scholarship and admirable detachment in No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (Knopf...
...What the student needs is a teacher friend. I don't mean Mark Hopkins on a log or Hannah Lyman behind the teapot I mean real teaching by real people . . who think, feel, judge and act with skill...
...mounted on a sturdy pair of legs that would never per form fancy ring steps. He mauls in on an opponent, wide-legged, carrying his left dangerously low; but he punches fast, savagely, substituting power and speed for a better boxer's polished skill...
...vicissitudes of the emigres and Ravic's murder of the Gestapo chief who had tortured him in Germany. The story of the emigres succeeds because of its tough, bold, unsentimental treatment of vast pathos. The story of Ravic's revenge succeeds because of Novelist Remarque's skill in presenting a cunning, brutal murder as an act of justice. The love story fails because Joan, an unpleasant character at best, is never quite real. When she is accidentally shot by her third or fourth lover, Ravic prepares to operate on her. Then he finds that the bullet...