Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anxious to prove his patient negotiating skill in domestic as well as foreign difficulties, Sir Anthony hoped to settle the strike without using his full special powers. He had most of the nation with him: Labor leaders joined the Tory Cabinet in urging the striking union to return. "This country is run on the basis that people will be reasonable," wrote the Laborite Daily Herald. "We advise the strikers not to prolong the agony...
WHAT do we know about the Soviet Air Force? In the broadest sense, air power is the product of a host of factors -geographical position, bases, oil and fuel production, aluminum capacity, industrial capabilities, technical know-how, design and engineering skill, and planes, missiles, weapons, electronics, air crews and ground experts. In most, though not all of these factors, the United States has a decided edge. Soviet Russia has a lot of planes; some estimates are as high as 35,000 to 48,000 military aircraft, more than half of them in storage, reserve, or support roles. But some acute...
...which, at altitudes above 28,000 to 30,000 feet, had flying characteristics superior to our aircraft. But, like the Jap Zero of World War II, it was not a better fighting machine. The "kill" statistics, even if liberally discounted, were overwhelming in our favor. Greater pilot skill accounted for much of this but not all of it. We have other yardsticks. We,know, as General Alfred M. Gruenther, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, has stated, that the Russians are not capable today of stopping the B-47. We think we have better bombsights and better electronics...
...release my hand from the aileron control and try to get out of phase with the roll that snaps me violently back and forth in its teeth ... A toy in my hands to fight the whole Goddamned sky that has turned on me." Yet he won with flying skill. On the next flight, he set a record of 1,258 miles an hour...
...Chef Dione Lucas remains a purist. She calmly refuses the customary TV gimmicks, chats informally with a sprinkling of wit and common sense as she displays her skill with a skillet. Last week she demonstrated paupiettes de veau Fontage and the unexpurgated chicken marengo (two small chickens are browned in sweet butter; a hen lobster is sautéed, then shelled; chickens and lobster are flamed in cognac, sprinkled with an aromatic sauce of tomatoes, mushrooms, shallots, tarragon and dry vermouth, garnished with fried eggs on croutons and slices of truffles). Chef Lucas makes it look easy, but any housewife...