Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force's Vice Chief of Staff, bluff, gruff General Curtis E. LeMay, who two weeks ago set a world record for a nonstop 7,100-mile flight from Japan to Washington (time: 12 hr. 28 min.) in a KC-135 jet tanker, critically checked out the stogie-lighting skill of daughter Patricia Jane, 19. The occasion: a father-daughter dinner at the capital's National Press Club, where pretty Pat won a door prize, but failed to coax her high-flying papa from his chair for even one dance...
Munro is woefully short of depth, since his roster reads like a page out of a Mayo Clinic report. Furthermore, a majority of the injured men play halfback position, where Munro will have to depend on depth if not on experience or an abundance of skill...
...Wichita's Payne Ratner, 61, onetime Republican Governor of Kansas now in trouble with the McClellan committee (TIME, Aug. 25), used his political contacts with considerable skill to head off a House Labor Subcommittee investigation of Jimmy Hoffa...
Gray never went to medical school, but at 23 he had picked up enough dissecting skill to become house surgeon at London's St. George's Hospital. At 25 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, spent the next six years putting together his book "to furnish the student and the practitioner with an accurate view of the anatomy of the human body...
President Lowell, in his Report to the University, stated: "All alumni are urged to refrain from offering an inducement to any schoolboy to enter Harvard, when the compelling motive is his athletic skill." The remark was taken with a grain of salt by loyal sons. After all, Harvard was the Rose Bowl champion, wasn...