Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think, ever occurred to her that she is essentially mediocre and will remain so until she learns to discipline herself. She has a smattering of many things, talks with skill, has read a scattered collection for counseling as well as for courses. But as a literature major in prospect, she had not, after four weeks of questioning, been able to get Chaucer within two centuries of his presumed time of activity on this earth...
Radeliffe's traditional jacks contest, held every year on Field Day, today will see Miss Florence Gerrish of Cabot pitted against Mrs. Fernstrom of Moors. Students will be able to take part in other games of skill: a three-legged race, a suitcase race, and a balloon race...
Stalin's game, sad to say, is ... WAR, hot or cold, depending on the skill of the players...
Secretary Anthony Eden, back in his old parliamentary form after what seemed a long slump. Crisp yet relaxed, Eden mimicked Labor's Herbert Morrison with a skill that Eden's country-house friends sometimes see, but fellow M.P.s rarely do. By the time he had finished his rollicking imitation of Morrison, in 1948, demanding and getting the guillotine to push through the nationalization of steel, the fight was over. At 5:45 a.m., the guillotine motion was adopted...
Pretty, Oscar-winning Cinemactress Anne (The Razor's Edge) Baxter is noted, she complains, only for her skill in playing straight dramatic roles. Last week she ably played straight man for her pressagent in a campaign for a zippier reputation. She is glad, she told newsmen in a Hollywood press conference, that in her new picture, My Wife's Best Friend, she has the role of an Egyptian belly dancer and wears a topaz in her navel. "I've been presented as terribly nice, a good actress, wife and mother," said she. "This is wonderful...