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Word: skillfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opportunities & Dangers. But these are times when more than thawing and stoking is needed. The sob-punctuated speech of Communist Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev (see FOREIGN NEWS) threw new light on a critical area of weakness in the Soviet system. To exploit the opportunities offered by that weakness, the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Back to the Factory | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

Members of the Lyric Productions company are engaged in a gamble that has never paid off in Boston--they are trying to establish a permanent repertory theatre which aims at artistic as well commercial success. Their first effort has its weaknesses, not the least being Thieves' Carnival's previously limited...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Thieves' Carnival | 3/6/1956 | See Source »

Apparently Khrushchev & Co. hoped to get some windfall out of parading Burgess and Maclean at this moment, hoping either to smooth the way for Khrushchev's forthcoming trip to London, or to muddy up the recent Anglo-American accord. Foreign Office officials have suspected Maclean's hand in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Propaganda Puppets | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

Since World War II (he served in the Welch Regiment and in Intelligence), Powell has resumed writing a series of novels in which he looks back with wry hindsight on the middling years of his life and on the causes of the discontents gnawing away at his class. The low...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Corpse in the Garden | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

Clearly he must be stopped. The FBI (Frank Lovejoy) moves in, but the FBI these days, as every moviegoer has reason to believe, is more interested in getting its woman than its man. Agent Lovejoy keeps putting the arm on the counter girl (Terry Moore) instead of on the spy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 13, 1956 | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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