Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Imperialism" is a term that belongs in the Classical vocabulary of Communist abuse. If the Russians use it with exceptional skill, it is only because they have an appreciation of its meaning. For within the USSR lies an empire as diverse and far-flung as anything the pre-Marxian world could assemble. The Formation of the Soviet Union, by Richard Pipes of the Russian Research Center, is a study of this empire in the making. Along with the gross anatomy of acquisition, Pipes combines a more rewarding discussion of the physiology of the empire, tracing the course of the troublesome...
This aura of corruption is a heavy burden for Case to bear. In addition, it has removed from the working-campaign organization many old G.O.P. professionals whose skill would be helpful, but whose reputations might be fatal. Case truthfully tells the voters that he had no part in making this splattered record, but the Democrats, using the guilt-by-association argument so familiar to U.S. politics, are making some headway with the Republican record of corruption...
Sturdy Protector. Aside from their hunters' ineptness and their own evasive skill, migrating waterfowl have another sturdy protector: the game laws of almost every country that they pass over. Unlike the fisherman, the duck hunter cannot throw back the one he takes just for kicks; carefully calculated hunting seasons and bag limits guard the birds from overenthusiastic sportsmen...
...clouts on a drum. After his death, the Boston Globe wrote: "Holmes was the man who brought the Harvard Band from nothing to where it now is. He was the envy of more than one football coach at Harvard. They always wondered how he produced the technical skill, and, more important, the clean which distinguished the Harvard toot ensemble. . . It takes something extraordinary. . . It takes something extraordinary to inspire college undergraduates these days. It takes something special to get off a death bed and bring down the house as an after-dinner speaker (at a band banquet) with a talk...
...second-game crowd was still talking about Dusty's homer, when it settled back to watch the Giants play like champions. At third dour Hank Thompson made acrobatic, circus saves with astonishing skill; at shortstop Alvin Dark, a hard-looking old pro out of Louisiana State, knocked down everything that came his way. Slowly, with infuriating care, young Johnny Antonelli pitched around the thin edge of disaster. In the fifth, Pinch Hitter Rhodes sneaked a piddling blooper into short centerfield and the game was as good as over...