Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From his flagship Enterprise, Radford led Carrier Division II through the Gilbert Island landings, improvising air and sea tactics to meet each crisis, running his ships and men with warm command and cold logic. In May 1944 he was hustled back to Washington as Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations...
Behind the formality, observers detected a skillful diplomatic technician, in this respect second only to Molotov. He could not change the U.N. majority against him, but he could and did bog it down in technicalities and delays, until fine hot outrage was largely dissipated and the vote anticlimactic. His own...
Until last week Lillian Hellman's adaptation of Jean Anouilh's The Lark was chiefly a Broadway bird. In Hallmark Hall of Fame's skillful TV version, wispy Actress Julie Harris embraced the difficult role of St. Joan like the old friend it has been and, in...
Just as the leaders were turning in their guns, the sound failure was fixed and KTVT hit the NBC network with an extraordinary 18 minutes in which Commentator Tom Wayman's skillful questioning drew the story out of three convicts and the governor. Mumbling like Marlon Brando understudies, the...
It would have been "cruel and unusual punishment" indeed had the varsity swimming team lost to Dartmouth. Yet it was skillful strategy which accounted for the 61-25 margin over the far from trifling team which came down from Hanover Saturday night.