Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crew never kept him off the track more than 35 seconds at a stop. He drifted into curves and tore down the straightaways with the same swift talent that had won him the national driving championship three years in the last four. He fought the wheel with the husky skill that helped him last through the 1954 race after his shock absorbers and springs collapsed, and his whole body was bruised and bleeding from pounding of the bricks...
Researcher Pavlovic has developed such skill that out of a recent series of 100 grafted embryos 30 did not die until their last day of incubation, and six hatched into living chicks. One of these lived 55 days, another 70 days. They grew more slowly than normal chicks and appear to have died because their composite brains did not properly control their digestive apparatus...
Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain is a lanky (7 ft. 2 in., 225 Ibs.) Philadelphia Negro with a delicate talent for dunking basketballs through 10-ft.-high hoops and an understandable urge to see his skill pay off. But high-paying summer jobs and a free ride at the University of Kansas have not added up to enough cash, says Wilt in the current issue of Look Magazine. "I'm quitting college basketball, even though I have a season's eligibility remaining and a year to go for my degree. I am arranging a big barnstorming tour...
Despite this disparity of motives, they make tender and tempestuous lovers. With scarcely a lapse of taste or skill. Author Koningsberger captures the many-splendored hues of fleshly delight. His lovers' neopaganism is sunny, not steamy. But the clouds soon gather. Toni, who is an egghead, likes to air his notions on Hegel, physics, films, money and 20th-century man. Catherine would rather listen to a record of Oh! Look at Me Now! five times...
...freshman game Yale over-whelmed the Crimson in all-round skill, showing a more polished playmaking ability. Dave Bohn was high scorer for Harvard with five goals...