Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"There was more than one cause for the insane state of the German mind before World War II," Tillich said. He described the depression of 1929 as responsible for a "deadly resentment" developed in the minds of the German middle class. "The Nazis were skillful enough to turn this resentment...
The Soviet proposal was a spectacular playon the eve of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden's trip to Washington-for a deal between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., a nightmare prospect for the U.S.'s allies in both Europe and Asia. (In 1954 Russia proposed an all-European...
On a personal basis California's Goodie Knight marveled at "what it is that could cause so many people to express so much devotion. This man isn't handsome. He's almost bald. He is not an orator. He is not a politician in the sense of...
When it comes to putting Frenchmen into the tumbrels of political recrimination, none are more skillful than other Frenchmen. In The Gravediggers of France, in 1944, French Journalist Pertinax (André Géraud) called Paul Reynaud the third gravedigger (after Gamelin and Daladier and before Pétain and...
Some Prefer Nettles, by Junichiro Tanizaki, gave U.S. readers the first real chance to sample the work of Japan's No. 1 living novelist. Delicate and skillful, it showed how traditional Japanese life became riddled by personal tensions after Western influences began to take hold.