Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used a secret trick to enter the locked doors of Wall Street offices. When he found a company with a big bank account, he would steal a few blank checks, often marking the stubs "destroyed because of bad printing." The second part of his work called for more skill. He would study the life and habits of a Manhattan businessman, learn to impersonate him, then open a bank account in his name...
Killed in Action. Major General Maurice Rose, 45, handsome, polo-playing commander of the Third Armored Division (First Army), pre-World War I private, recipient last month of the Distinguished Service Medal for his sweeping drives down the Normandy peninsula, which showed "inspiring leadership, tactical skill and great valor"; in Germany...
Even as you watch the immensities of a sea choked with craft, and realize the incalculably great massing and brandishing of skill and purpose assembled there, the whole motion forward has the involuntariness of a convulsion. Even as you look from a plane steep into the sea, and note the amazingly regular patterns of the wakes, it is more as if a stone had been gashed by the claws of a great beast. And along the ashen island, men and machines flounder and founder as desperately, and with as little apparent clarity of intention, as if they themselves were phantasms...
With test tube and spectroscope, the metallurgists reconstructed a revealing picture of arms-making inside the Axis countries. The Germans started the war with meager supplies of copper, nickel, molybdenum, vanadium, chromium, manganese-all considered vital for war. They showed great skill and ingenuity in finding workable substitutes. As early as 1934 they began to make shell cases of copper-coated steel instead of brass (which uses more copper). As war ate up their copper stocks, they shifted to electrolytic copper plating (a thinner coat), finally to a rust-retarding lacquer coating containing no copper...
...exceptional skill, resourcefulness and outstanding devotion to duty displayed by Lt. Seaman reflected credit upon himself and the Naval Service...