Word: skilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest of that intrepid breed-and Britain's new nautical hero -tottered ashore at Portsmouth last week from the tubby 36-ft. yawl in which he had circled the globe alone. Seagoing Greengrocer Alec Rose, 59, declared: "This bug gets into one's blood." Praising his "tenacity, skill and courage, "Queen Elizabeth knighted Rose and invited him and his wife Dorothy to lunch at Buckingham Palace...
...costumes, and from the up-to-date music and songs by Frangipane & Dante. I would also have to mention the name of every single player in the cast, all of whom, major and minor, are unfailingly entertaining both aurally and visually. I will at least cite here the stylish skill of Lawrence Pressman in the play's fattest role, that of the witty and skeptical lord Berowne...
...seldom had occasion to look north to Canada for political excitement. Yet last week Americans could envy Canadians the exuberant dash of their new Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who, along with intellect and political skill, exhibits a swinger's panache, a lively style, an imaginative approach to his nation's problems. A great many U.S. voters yearn for a fresh political experience, but at midpoint in 1968, the U.S. presidential race has begun to seem grindingly familiar. Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon appear destined to seize their parties' nominations, then meet in an old-style confrontation...
...skill at twirling and tossing dough ten feet into the air made Pizza Baker Camillo Calogero a consistent crowd pleaser at a Lynbrook, N.Y., pizzeria. Then, one day last September, his neck was broken in an auto accident; he was no longer able to make the flamboyant motions needed to fling high the pizza dough. The 33-year-old father of three children sued for damages. Rejecting a defense claim that pizza can be simply flattened on a table with the hands, and considering other injuries to Calogero, a twelve-man jury awarded him $335,000. At his old salary...
...Skills. Since Colonial Williamsburg opened in 1934, it has drawn 17 million visitors. Over this Fourth of July weekend, 14,000 more are expected to walk through the town where Washington, Jefferson and Patrick Henry learned the skills and frustrations of representative government by sitting in the colonial House of Burgesses. Visitors can gawk at its carefully reconstructed saddle shops and taverns, watch trained 20th century craftsmen and their apprentices produce guns, weave flax, and cast candles with the laborious, loving skill of their 18th century predecessors. They can dine at the King's Arms, where costumed waiters slightly...