Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guns. Unfortunately, the Navy then performed with far less skill on the public-relations front. After Tail Gunner Corder was taken to a hospital (his condition: very good), the 13 other crewmen were hustled into a press conference. Why, correspondents wanted to know, had the Mercator not fired back with its other weapons - two .50-cal. guns in the top turret and two 20-mm. guns in the nose? Replied Pilot Mayer: The guns were inoperative. Why? Well - because of a lack of spare parts, which "are very difficult to get." Would the Navy make gun parts available for future...
...manages to turn a folk hero into a public nuisance, by marinating his name in an indelible jingle and spreading his face, printed on T-shirts, across millions of tiny chests, there can be no more likely candidate than Robert Rogers. He was a woodsman and explorer of great skill, a brilliant military innovator, and an Indian fighter so widely feared that he was a myth before he was 30. The fact that the redoubtable French and Indian Warrior was, at one time or another, a resident of debtors' prison, a suspect in a counterfeiting ring, and a defendant...
...though still a very young man, he has had more Shakespearean experience than most veterans, and is one of a handful who can boast of having acted in all thirty-seven of the Bard's plays. But this is the first time I have been able to appraise his skill as a director...
Richard Easton's Romeo is unevenly effective. He has on previous occasions shown great skill with smaller roles, especially comic ones (his Puck last summer was tops). But Romeo marks his first traversal of a long, serious part for the Festival; and there is no reason to expect it to be definitive yet. He clearly has a fine Romeo within him, though. His diction is clear. He has no trouble making Romeo young enough--and young he must be: Romeo matures a little during the play's course, but he never does become a man. At present, however, Easton...
...Cover Eleanor." "All I ever demanded was results," Bach recalls, "and I got 'em." One reason was Teacher Bach's skill at spotting hungry boys with talent, most of them Depression kids with a drive to make good. For them, Bach's first aim was finding a fine camera: "In those days, it was like buying a diamond." Often Bach lent a boy the down payment out of his own pocket, persuaded a camera store to give him credit, found him odd jobs to keep up the payments. With a precision instrument in his palms...