Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In his 497 days, Scelba had seen Trieste settled and had pushed through the Paris accords. At home he had launched an attack, even though belated and limited, on the Communists' entrenched privileges. But he had gotten nowhere on Italy's much-needed social and economic reforms. Skillful...
The Great Adventure. Arne Sucksdorff's nature film, a skillful blending of terror and tenderness in the seasonal round of life in a Swedish forest (TIME, June 20).
Skillful, steady and utterly fearless, Vuky wasted no time. He gunned his Hopkins Special into a fierce duel with Jack MrGrath's Hinkle Special, and the two men began to run away with the race. Behind them, mechanical trouble thinned the field. Then McGrath's mount sputtered to...
A cool, skillful technician, completely devoid of Latin temperament, utterly dependent upon his knowledge of engines and his exquisite reflexes, Alberto ("Ciccio")* Ascari finally hit his stride in the auto-racing heyday after World War II. He traveled everywhere-Spain, England, Argentina-and everywhere other drivers ate his dust. He...
The general rule with classics is-time mutes, translators mutilate. Poet Rolfe Humphries' rendition of Ovid's Metamorphoses is a glowing exception. A skillful poet himself (Forbid Thy Ravens, The Wind of Time), Humphries, 60, soaked up a love of Latin from his teacher father, who once played...