Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long before Pete finished counting his bruises, Deacon Jack Hurley, the irascible Seattle promoter who perpetrated the farce, sorrowfully counted the house. He had hoped for a $400,000 gate; there was only $243,000 in the till. With the skill of a veteran pitchman preparing to milk the marks once more, Hurley started the spiel for a new fight. "This guy may not have the staying power of a pro yet. But he's as confident as Einstein doing long division. He can draw a crowd better than anybody but the champion...
...that peace is "normal" that it still does not realize the dimensions of danger in a world half-controlled by "an irreconcilably hostile bloc." The Communists, on the other hand, have exploited the U.S. desire for peace and its fear of all-out atomic war by playing with considerable skill their "strategy of ambiguity," i.e., by alternating belligerence with "peaceful coexistence," open repression (Hungary) with subtle infiltration (the Mideast). "What is striking [is] that essentially the same pattern of Soviet behavior should time and again raise discussion about its 'sincerity' or its 'novelty,' " says Kissinger. "Nothing...
Chock Full o' Guts. By 1941, when she was 13, Althea was ready to graduate from paddle tennis. The PAL instructor that year was an unemployed musician named Buddy Walker, and Buddy was impressed with the gangly youngster's ferocious skill. He went to a friend named Van Houton (a tennis buff who liked to boast that he was the only self-employed racket stringer in Harlem), bought Althea a pair of secondhand rackets, and put her to work practicing against the wall of a handball court. A few weeks later he took her uptown to some public...
Certainly there are many jobs in the Army which require special aptitudes. However, even in this atomic age, most of the jobs held by enlisted men of the lower pay grades do not require a high degree of technical skill. The most important qualities of a soldier are now, and always have been, physical fitness, and a receptiveness for discipline...
...Russell and his determined Southerners, Senate Republican Leader William Fife Knowland and his coalition of Republicans and Democratic liberals. Last week, with the pressures carefully remeasured, the crosscurrents analyzed, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson calculated that it was time to come out of the wings and exercise his superb cloakroom skill in the name of moderation. Johnson's goal: enactment of a compromise civil rights bill that most of the South could swallow (including Texan Lyndon Johnson), that Dick Russell would not filibuster against, and that Bill Knowland and Northern Democrats could hold up as a symbol of civil rights...