Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squad can master the skill of playing well against two successive opponents, the Crimson fan might even think in terms of fifth place Ivy League finish...
...Dulles. I do not know whether they were unfortunate expressions used in that article by him or by someone supposed to be reporting them. But I know he is devoted to peace. He has spent his lifetime in this kind of work. He is a man of great professional skill in the field, and to my mind, the best Secretary of State I have ever known...
...Ralph Miller will carry the highest U.S. hopes, but Austria's Toni Sailer will probably whip the field. Andrea Mead Lawrence, who won the slalom and giant slalom for the U.S. in 1952, has borne three babies since then and may not have won back her old skill on skis. With Tenley Albright on the injured list, Figure Skater Hayes Jenkins may well be the U.S.'s only sure gold-medal winner...
...ambitious young college graduate, a working knowledge of Culbertson on Contract, and a limber swing off the seventh too would clearly be more advantageous than whatever he can remember of English Villages in the Thirteenth Century, and his hard-earned skill in step tests. Harvard's avowed objective is to produce "whole men," and "well-rounded members of society"--here is the administration's golden opportunity to accomplish this goal...
Once they are given a situation with some potential, the Marx Brothers tear into it with a delightful zest which makes up for much of the plot's weakness. Their skill barely saves many slapstick scenes from a fatal resemblance to televsion-style humor...