Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sequence of actions creates a new diplomatic atmosphere, requiring new diplomatic responses. Whatever their motives, the Kremlin's new bosses acted with suppleness and skill. In his last years, Joseph Stalin's stubborn inflexibility had actually served the West: his intransigeance over Germany drew West Germany to the West; his Korean invasion bestirred the West to rearm; his willfulness drove out Tito. Stalin's successors, without any evident change in aims, have brought some mobility and subtlety back to the Kremlin...
...Milan, and thus the right to practice medicine in his home town. Cardano moved to a village near Padua for a while, but could not support his family, either as a country doctor or by gambling. Back in Milan, however, he began to lecture, write and debate with such skill and vehemence that he won the right to practice, finally rose to such eminence that kings and archbishops solicited his services...
Precocious Skill. Although he had had to defy his own parents on a choice of career, Newman had no trouble with his own son, Leonard Hugh. Born on the Bexley butterfly farm, the boy grew up in a fluttering world that was timed to the persistent rhythm of mating, egg laying, caterpillar collecting, pupation and maturing butterflies. Before he was eight, he was showing precocious skill at spotting rare specimens. "There had never been any question of an alternative career for me," acknowledges Leonard Hugh in a book, Butterfly Farmer, just published in England (Phoenix House...
...this way, without getting a severe eyestrain, have been more than Hollywood can cope with, so far. In the first three pictures, the depth illusion could scarcely have been more cruelly mismanaged if Hollywood had deliberately set out to destroy the eyesight of the nation. For all their skill in 2-D photography, the technicians still knew little about stereoscopy. One expert solemnly told Hollywood that the stereocamera sees things just as human eyes do because its openings are fixed four inches apart-"just as human eyes are"-and its lenses converge on the object of attention. Hollywood accepted this...
With considerable skill, Novelist Waltari parallels the fall of Constantinople with the fall of gorgeous Anna. For much of the book, he keeps his readers on the hooks, trying to guess which surrender will come first. Constantinople, as any practical reader could guess, holds out just a bit longer than Anna...