Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flashy in his conducting ("Was that the Beethoven Eighth? demanded one Proper Bostonian when Münch guest-conducted in Boston last year, "or the Battle of Waterloo?"). But when he is at his best, Bostonians will find the same electric brilliance and showy skill to which Koussevitzky has accustomed them...
True, aiming at what Williams calls "the competitive American male, the man who admires skill, and who wants stories he can talk about at his bar or his club," became a yeasty mixture of sports, science, adventure and personality pieces. And the magazine began to make money...
...keep Sleuth Milland precisely equidistant from himself and the killer takes the kind of nerveless skill required to shave two men with one stroke of a two-edged razor-and produces the same excruciating suspense. Author Fearing's book pulled off the trick very neatly, but Scenarist Jonathan Latimer and Director John Farrow have done an even better job of it in the movie...
...original note came from Subject R, whose reasons were: (a) Money (side bets); (2) Waste time between race results; (c) Waste time; (d) Objective test of motor skill...
Considerable credit must go to Crimson skill, though, for they opened up in the very first inning, gathering five quick runs, and giving Hymans a respectable margin to work with. He went very well indeed for six full innings, limiting the visitors to three, hits and one cheap...