Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout the battle Ezra Taft Benson had conducted himself with great tactical skill. Behind the skill lay the strategy of principle firmly held and forcefully advocated...
...reports that automation will eliminate jobs. But unless automation eliminates jobs, it is neither profitable nor practical. Detroit Machine Maker Charles F. Hautau claims that he can cut a man off the payroll for every $5,000 a manufacturer invests in Hautau's automation machinery. However, for every skill eliminated, others will be created and upgraded...
Death of a Salesman, with its outstanding reputation so recently made on Broadway, is a highly ambitious undertaking for an amateur dramatic group, no matter how high its calibre. Last night's performance in Sanders, however, vindicated beyond a doubt the resourcefulness, imagination, and skill of the HDC. The present production is theatrical achievement of the first rank...
According to Surrey, the trouble with these exemptions, however, is that they are given only to those with "sufficient pressures and skill to make their case appealing," and not on any fair or uniform basis...
...have more to do, and do it sometimes with less skill. As King Edward, Sir Cedric Hardwicke is properly cardiac and feckless, but Sir John Gielgud dilutes his Clarence with so much milk of human kindness that the observer cannot really credit him with the murder he bemoans, and so the point of his big scene is lost. Sir Ralph Richardson, too, is scarcely the strong figure that the "deep-revolving, witty Buckingham" should...