Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheering as the sculling Crimeds, unpracticed since they retired the Janiero Cup on the Tagus last year, clocked the astonishing time of 4:22.3 over the measured mile. As one veteran, himself once known as "the Jim Thorpe of rowing"--exclaimed, "These youngsters have shown out here today that skill and integrity still have a place in collegiate athletics...
Konrad Adenauer is a man used to making his own lonely decisions. With single-minded discipline and skill, he has done more than anyone else to raise his country from ruin and disgrace to riches and repute in ten short years. And it was his command decisions which committed West Germany firmly to Western Europe and the Atlantic Alliance...
Dramatic progress was reported last week in efforts to cure victims of massive overdoses of radiation, and to turn this new-won skill to advantage in treating victims of acute leukemia. Nub of the problem is the fact that the human blood system responds automatically to the presence of foreign protein by developing antibodies to destroy it. This is why skin grafts and organ transplants do not "take'' permanently, except between identical twins...
Friedrich cited personal and policy differences between the two which might lead Adenauer to by-pass Erhard for Franz Etzel, Minister of Finance. Friedrich added that Erhard lacks administrative skill...
Hidden Ingredient. But the hidden ingredient of Rambler's success is the Big Three themselves. "They are," says George Romney happily, "my best salesmen." The Big Three have used every device of the designer's art and the engineer's skill to make cars steadily bigger, sleeker, more luxurious, almost self-operating. Surrounded by soaring fins, dazzling in their chrome, perched behind an engine of steadily, growing power, the U.S. driver had what Detroit says he wanted. But was he happy...