Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this level, people are almost of the same skill," he said. "After an hour of playing, people are exhausted, and its really more will power than anything else. Our hard training makes us mentally and physically tough...
...This game doesn't always come down to skill," Kaplan said. "We work hard every day in practice. The game is almost second nature...
Carnesale's greatest skill may simply be the ability to pay attention...
...almost hopeless cause in a Congress where everyone defends home-state pork with a passion. But Armey advocated giving a bipartisan commission the full authority to do the job. Passage of this measure altered his reputation as a legislator, proving that he could listen and persuade. Yet his highest skill lies in attack by ridicule, usually through the deft use of symbolism. It was Armey who first unveiled a Byzantine chart of the Clinton health plan that reduced it to a visual cacaphony of arrows, boxes and fine print. The image was devastating...
...first week -- and less than 48 hours from deadline -- she was asked to oversee our late-breaking cover story on Susan Smith, the young South Carolina mother accused of murdering her children. It was an assignment whose challenge amounted almost to hazing, but Aitken brought it off with skill and aplomb...