Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...previously reticent Premier is showing more self-confidence and political skill. He is also getting stronger and more popular, partly because he is now the sole dispenser of U.S. aid in South Viet Nam, but more importantly because Diem is developing a novel formula that is catching Vietnamese imagination: a nationalist, puritanical revulsion from the corruption and immorality that most Vietnamese associate with the discredited French colonials...
Sugar Ray Robinson's old wicked grace and his panther's skill were just a fraction off, and the snap was fading from his punch. But the beaten champ was too proud to retire. Sugar Ray went home to Harlem and worked hard to get in shape for another crack at Turpin...
...race but a test of a car's reliability and a driver's skill. Contestants cover each lap at a designated average speed (well within local speed limits), are penalized for passing checkpoints early or late, also lose points whenever they are forced to make major repairs...
...basic similarity to the first. When, despite everyone's attempts to subvert its ends, Fate proves too wily a customer for mortals, the final curtain rings down on what has been an enjoyable, if not particularly exhilarating, evening. Although the subject is obviously fascinating, it has been handled with skill and craftsmanship rather than real imagination...
...still not fully enforced, nearly all the once-threatened birds have come back, some in greater numbers than ever before. Birders, as bird watchers call themselves, have multiplied with the birds. Only a handful of the watchers are professional ornithologists. The majority are amateurs, who enjoy testing their skill in quick identification of the 700 species found in the U.S. and Canada...