Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...merely won a great battle in the Pacific and averted a great disaster: The U.S. had proved its skill and might in a new form of warfare at sea. For, in the Battle of Midway, U.S. forces met and drove back the first full battle fleet, organized on the grand scale for modern war, which any nation has yet put to sea." So said TIME (June 15, 1942), sizing up a naval battle just fought off Midway Island in the Pacific. This week, on the 18th anniversary of the battle, TIME takes another look, adds Midway to the list...
...Hairdresser. Not all political prisoners warrant the skill and attention of the "confession experts." About the time Ignotus was facing his secret court, youthful Florence Matay, daughter of an English mother, who worked as an English translator in semiofficial jobs in the Communist regime, left her office to visit the hairdresser...
...pipe by his ankles. The incredulous cry, "He's alive!", swept through the crowd. Benny, who was found later to have contracted mild pneumonia in the 55° cold, owed his life to his jacket, which created an air pocket over his head, and to the skill and dedication of a community that was determined he should...
...Cincinnati Redleg, Donald Albert Hoak, 29, was the man whom opposing National League pitchers wished most they could knock down. He was near the top of the National League with a .358 batting average, running the bases with happy belligerence, and defending third base with almost errorless skill. Cincinnati has seen nothing like him since Third Baseman Billy Werber drifted in from the American League in 1939 and fired the Reds to two pennants...
...manager would tolerate a gin bottle in dugout or bullpen. So what explained the sudden spurt of skill of Detroit Third Baseman Reno Bertoia? For two full seasons, and even this spring, Bonus Baby Bertoia sometimes performed like a crossfoot clown in the field and was too tense at bat to hit his hat size. Still, as the season started, Bertoia was given the nod over Jim Finigan to play third. He has yet to make an error, and at week's end he was second in the American League in batting with a hefty .375 (behind Boston...