Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lysenko has the resistance and recuperative power of ragweed. A practical botanist of some skill, he concentrated on improving corn, and thereby worked his way into the graces of corn-loving Nikita Khrushchev, a practical man with a built-in contempt for academics. When he saw tall corn nurtured on a particularly thrifty mixture of manure and factory fertilizers, Khrushchev proclaimed: "Biological disputes should be settled in the fields. Comrade Lysenko has shown astonishing results." No sooner had Khrushchev called for a drive to overtake the U.S. in milk production than the practical Lysenko was out in his barns feeding...
...hearts and minds of Irishmen he was still "The Long" Fella"-the gangling, imperious young rebel commandant whose gallantry and skill during the Easter Rebellion moved even his British foes to admiration. But, as The Long Fella himself knew only too well, the slow wear of the years had transformed the youthful hero of legend into an old man, too weary to enjoy the daily cut and thrust of parliamentary politics, so near blind that he could no longer read the papers. Last week, as he has so often in the past, Eamon de Valera, 76, imposed his own view...
...until he cradles the ball in his huge hands does the poker-faced Negro come alive. Then, graceful and cunning as a cougar, Elgin Baylor begins to roam for the Minneapolis Lakers. His hands flicker with the slick skill of a shell-game operator. His dribble is a rapid rat-a-tattoo inches off the floor. Smoothly, surely, Baylor prowls through the elbowing surge under the hoop to nail a Laker with a pinpoint pass, or rises from the floor as though projected to loop a lazy shot through the basket...
...large measure, Baylor's tremendous skill stems from his tremendous physique. He is 6 ft. 5 in. tall, weighs 230 lbs. He is strong enough to win the hip-cracking duels under the basket, yet nimble enough to outjump men half a foot taller, dodge around men half a foot shorter...
...training, practiced incessantly, and when they could not get on the ice. trotted off to the local park for a wind-building game of soccer. In action, the Russians showed the results of such training by their ability to reach breakaway speed in three strides and a nimble-footed skill in passing the puck with a sidewise flick of their skates...