Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stanley Baldwin: "In his way, you know, [he] was a great parliamentarian. I mean, he played on the House with very great skill. If there was anything awkward, he'd get up and talk about airy nothings. Nothing whatever to do with it. But he'd soothe the House...
...experienced boiled up behind the eight ball. He was a pool shark, although he hated to be called that; he thought of himself as a pool hustler, a town-to-town drifter who conned strangers into games, looked bad or only fair at first, then turned on his skill when the stakes were high enough to matter. Eddie had the skill and pride of a real...
More than Skill. Eddie begins to hustle again because it is all he knows how to do. Then one night he outsmarts himself, wins too spectacularly, and the poolroom toughs take him to the privy and break his thumbs. His comeback is slow. At the end he has regained his skill and has also learned that skill is not enough, that in the clutches a man's inner resources may be more important than a missed shot...
...close examination will not bear out the belief that professors here must write a great number of books before they gain tenure, Pusey said. Men are often promoted on the basis of skill in teaching rather than amount of publication, he added...
...plot hinges on whether Miles will be appointed head of a new laboratory set up to study his own specialty. It is a Trollopian situation, as scientific panjandrums play politics with the skill and gusto of the Barchester Cathedral chapter contending over a vacant canonry. But the real story is a crisis in faith. Miles is distracted from his devotions by a girl named Audrey, and it is easy to see why Lord Rutherford did not like the erotic bits. She and Miles live it up at meetings of the Holborn Labour Party, and their sex life is described...