Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasion. Sukarno, who is still preaching "guided democracy" without ever denning it, rules Indonesia through two men: 1) his hand-picked Premier Djuanda Kartawidjaja, 2) his hand-picked army Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, who surprised both the rebels and foreign observers by the speed and skill with which he drove the rebellious colonels into the jungle last spring...
Throughout this maneuvering, President Sukarno, a manipulator of impressive skill, has remained affable and, for him, remarkably silent. He neither interferes with Nasution's moves nor publicly backs them, and therefore can take credit if things go well and avoid blame if they fail. As for 40-year-old General Nasution, an enigmatic soldier, he remains a man who has never, by word or gesture, shown sign of wishing to overthrow Sukarno. If the army's "middle way" works, there would be no need...
Professional direction is necessary to "average out the years between high and low periods of dramatic interest and skill," Stinson explained. "This is hardly a radical move, "since the Glee Club and Band have nearly always done so," he continued. "In this way we can insure that it is never a case of blind leading blind...
...best available test of this skill is the four years of dormitory life which most college men endure. Only when the social and mental skills are assured and the young man has been stamped as socially and mentally sanitary, only then is he ready for the abattoir, "a good...
Into the heavens over the Atlantic Ocean one night last week thundered a 100-ton symbol of U.S. scientific skill and diligence: the Air Force's Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile. Fully powered with close to 370,000 lbs. of thrust, the 80-ft. beast leaped from its Cape Canaveral pad, rocketed off the Florida coast into the starry night and arched serenely over the moon. The Cape's missile watchers held their breath as, in shucking its booster motors, the ICBM blazed like a meteor 200 miles from earth; then it faded and seemed to hang...