Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Two of the busiest men in West Germany last week were Egyptians. It was their job, in a desperate response to calls for help from Cairo, to comb the Kiel Canal and other German waterways in search of pilots skillful and experienced enough to guide a ship through the Suez...
THE line of attack which the Democrats mean to push hardest is that the Old Guard of the Republican Party took over in San Francisco to insure that Richard M. Nixon again would be Vice President and their skillful agent at the center of government in the four years to...
Back to Charles XII. The return to the principles of 1888 was proclaimed in John Foster Dulles' skillful, lawyerlike opening conference speech. "In the Suez Canal the interdependence of nations reaches perhaps its highest point," said Dulles. "The economic life of many nations has been shaped by reliance on...
BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR - 1956, edited by David C. Cooke (252 pp.; Dutfon; $2.95), indicates that the detective short story is undergoing a marked change and notable improvement. In the majority of these tales, whodunit is not the main point. Like all effective short stories, most of them...
The prize-winning ($25) story, Errand of Mercy by Raymond Medeiros, is a skillful and well-sustained account of a homosexual's encounter with a young Swedish sailor. Medeiros knows how to write: he tells a story without showing it, so that each sentence is more a discover than a...