Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Something akin to this game of hide-and-seek with public symbols happened with his target paintings. Everyone "knows" what a target is--a test of a marksman's skill. But beneath its muteness a target is supercharged with an imagery of aggression: every target implies a weapon and someone aiming. This had an inescapable point in the mid-'50s, when politicians and all the American media were pounding into the collective imagination, like a 10-in. spike, the message that the whole nation was a target for Russian thermonuclear weapons...
Adams' post-game actions were the mark of a team which, in only three games, has already shown a tremendous amount of character, pride and confidence. Not only do they have the talent and skill to win games against the best of the ECAC, they believe they should...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "With all my skill and energy, I will work to get more cops on the street, to deal with illegal immigrants and to enhance America's economic and political leadership worldwide...
...finished that really brings a lot of hope to those on this year's team. In addition to Higdon, sophomores Craig Adams and Rob Millar showed incredible poise and skill down the stretch. Adams was named Rookie of the Year by his team after scoring eight goals and amassing 21 points in his first year...
...nurses who wrote us about the report, Linda Emery Evans respects the skill of nurses even though she had a narrow escape while under an R.N.'s care. "Within hours of the birth of my daughter last spring, I was in unspeakable pain," wrote Evans, 34. "I was unable to convince the nurse that I was experiencing something more than postpartum pain." After hours of pleading, Evans was operated on for internal bleeding. "I think the nurse was not really listening to what I was telling her," she says. "She may have been overworked. But I can only imagine...