Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military people, and three golf courses. The Okinawan base is crucial to the West's Pacific defenses, and the U.S. has made it clear that it has no intention of turning over administration to local authorities "in the foreseeable future." Senaga played on these resentments with dialectical skill. "We are antiCommunists, but Senaga is the only man who really stands up to the Americans," explained one admirer...
...game, it looked as though the varsity would start its season with flying colors. The Crimson held a 2-0 lead at the end of the first period and had dominated play throughout. But the fact was that it had been B.U.'s mistakes rather than the varsity's skill that allowed the varsity to take the upper hand...
...much from Seeger's considerable artistry. He has a poor voice and poorer diction, but neither failing seems to bother him, and if it bothers his listeners they can go elsewhere. He has in his favor a completely ingratiating manner--which natuarally comes across better in person--and tremendous skill with banjo and guitar. This ability is heard to best advantage on dance tunes like Old Dan Tucker and The Blue Tailed...
...fellow-member of the school's basketball team, he is subjected to a subtly-conceived interrogation by a pair of police detectives, who finally reveal the frightened boy hiding behind the facade of a tough guy. Kopit's point may be a modest one, but he makes it with skill and ends up with the most theatrically accomplished undergraduate play produced here in recent years...
...small band of devoted men, the mass game of modern football is still, at its best, the skill of one individual practicing the ancient and fundamental art of the sport: kicking the ball. No man in the nation knows more about this art than a husky, hustling Episcopal priest named Arnold A. Fenton, 55, chaplain at New York Military Academy in upstate Cornwall, who has developed some of the game's finest punters...