Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...challenge is immense: it conjures up a vision of U.S. capital and skill flowing out to far-off lands to dam great rivers, dig new mines, so that millions who know only hunger may share in the freedom and plenty that Americans take for granted. But the businessmen in the Eisenhower Cabinet are not interested in a return to expensive giveaway programs. Their WEP is based on spreading abroad the practices and philosophy that have made the U.S. the wealthiest, most progressive nation in history. Foreign investment is to the advantage of other nations who lack the capital to develop...
...busy surgeon need lose not a minute between operations, and in certain cases can let them overlap. The old theater design is gone. Medical students no longer need to peer over each other's shoulders, straining for a view of a master-surgeon's deft-fingered skill. A TV camera relays a color image to viewing rooms throughout the hospital. A two-way phone system enables the surgeon to explain what he is doing, while graduate students can ask him to clear up details. And in the operating rooms doctors and nurses wear soft green-easier...
Second, the man should enhance his ability to express his ideas both orally and in writing. He learns to put forward his own ideas and to defend them against the attacks of fellow students or the intellectual assault by his instructors. Skill in these respects is no small asset in business...
...dedicates himself to two primary endeavors--the exercise of his professional skill and the advancement of his profession to answer the changing and increasing demands of society. With the conviction that his work is socially valuable, he must have the desire to serve unselfishly and without being dominated by the expectation of monetary rewards...
...lack of skill that worries Miss Clarke, it's the lack of spirit, "Out at Wellesley," she sighed nostalgically, "they have REAL teams. . . ." She smiled as she cited an example of true sportswomanship. It was a cold, rainy day out at Wellesley last winter, but there were 63 female rowers at their oars on the Wellesley pond. "You'd never find such a turnout at Radcliffe," she reflected sadly, "but then, Boston and its many cultural advantages aren't so close...