Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Titanic's voyage to disaster, with all the triumphs and hysterics reported in Walter Lord's 1956 bestseller. Done in stark documentary style, with skillful collaboration from Director Roy Baker, Scriptwriter Eric Ambler and Actor Kenneth More.
The consensus opinion was probably best expressed by William C. Mitchell, teaching fellow in Government, who called Rep. Martin "highly experienced and beloved" but felt that he no longer provided the "imaginative and skillful leadership the Republicans need."
U.S. Ambassador Robert Murphy. "Mr. Murphy, skillful and resolute, had long been active in [Paris] society and was inclined, it seemed, to believe that France consisted of the people with whom he dined."
Separate Tables (Clifton Productions; United Artists) is about as skillful a job as could possibly be done of turning a well-made play into a well-made movie.
But the most glaring Crimson weakness, other than a decided slowness in comparison with the B.C. forwards, was its inability to apply the finisher. At 8:30 of the final period, the varsity had a two-man advantage for 45 seconds and still could not get off a telling shot...