Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lieut. Commander Burke at last had a ship of his own, was piped aboard the U.S.S. Mugford as its skipper. Mugford was a destroyer, and thus began his second real romance. In the Solomons five years later, he was to handle destroyers with a deadly dash and affectionate skill that won him Navy renown as the most famous destroyer man in history...
...dramatically interesting enough to support a complex symbolic structure without lapsing into incomprehensibility. George Montgomery's new translation for the Poets' Theatre helps, because the words appear clear and musical even in the more difficult passages. Mr. Montgomery also designed the set which director Edward Thommen uses with great skill. Obviously a lot of talent went into the production, perhaps the finest one the Poets' Theatre staged during this season...
...winning team in the Triangulars--and the team that represents the best in the tradition of Harvard debating--should exhibit, the instructions continue, "thorough knowledge of the subject, logical sequence, skill in selecting and presenting evidence, and power in rebuttal." These are the skills that Roosevelt saw as hypocrisy and that more conventional people call worthwhile
...Poujade crusade, so triumphantly threatful only four months ago, was floundering badly, and Pierre Poujade knew it. With cynical and weary skill, the veterans of the National Assembly had made fools of his shopkeeper-Deputies, and expelled seven of them for faulty credentials. His shopkeeper voters waited in vain for the tax relief Poujade promised. Last week Poujade, who refers to himself affectionately as "the Little Poujade," retreated from Paris to his old home town of Saint-Cèrè and summoned to him his leaders from all over France...
Accountant Robert John Edwin Mc-Kerrow's undeniable skill with figures had brought him some doubtful rewards, among them a number of convictions for forgery and embezzlement. But a good talent is hard to suppress, and when British-born McKerrow was sentenced to 4½ years in Kampala's Luzira Prison for juggling an employer's books to the tune of $14,000, he was promptly assigned to take care of the prison accounts...