Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like all men who hunt with hounds, cougar hunters are out for more than money. They are proud of their dogs, of their skill, of their sport. A cougar hunter must be as rugged as the country he hunts -the mountain wildernesses of the western U.S. On the snow-covered trail of the biggest cat on the North American continent, sometimes grown to nine or ten feet in length from gorging on deer, the hunter must make as much as 30 miles a day. Creeping along rock ledges, plunging through rough timber, always pressing to keep his dogs within sound...
...Republican Party, today invigorated by this infusion of new blood, has already proven it has an abundance of administrative skill; that it is pregnant with the new ideas; that it has an understanding of America's place in the world...
...Last week the Churchill-Coalition candidate, Flight Lieut. William Teeling, defeated Independent Briant by a bare 1,958 votes (14,594 to 12,636). Conservative alarm was due as much to Churchill's error as to the outcome. Tories rely on Churchill's enormous popularity, and his skill at using it, to help win the next general election...
...Clapper was convinced that journalism is the most important of all professions, that fair and honest reporting is its highest skill. His own quiet integrity helped to make him one of the soundest, most independent interpreters of the national and international scene. Unlike many of his colleagues, he refused to be partisan, tried to keep himself free to praise objectively, to criticize with stinging sincerity...
...noble emotion nobly expressed, but also his almost corybantic intelligence. From Solomon Sturges, on the other hand, Preston may have derived his exaggerated respect for plain success, which leaves him no patience towards artists of integrity who fail at the box office. The combination might explain his matchless skill in producing some of the most intoxicating bits of nihilism the screen has known, but always at the expense of a larger excellence...