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Word: skillfull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lest we doze through a $75,000 commercial, television addresses us in a chronic forte. One team is best. One man is No. 1. One sport is better than it has ever been before. The salesmanship is skillful, and I am always finding myself persuaded.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Joy of Deprogramming Sport | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

Much credit was also due to some skillful mediation by nine neutral and nonaligned nations (Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Liechtenstein, Malta, San Marino, Sweden, Switzerland and Yugoslavia). The " NNs," as they were dubbed adroitly provided many of the phrases and even the punctuation of the agreement their own desire (which coincided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: A Caviar Ending | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

The former Secretary figures that he has a vested interest in an American foreign policy that works. So he will watch what happens in the world very, very carefully. In the future he may feel compelled to speak more publicly than he has so far. But he is convinced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Henry: Watching, Waiting, Worried | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

The formula worked fairly well for a while. A skillful tactician, Scares secured support from Alvaro Cunhal's Communists on such important measures as regulating strikes, then turned around and gained the backing of Francisco Sa Carneiro's centrist Social Democrats (P.S.D.) and Diogo Freitas do Amaral'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Scares' Shaky Political Seesaw | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

New Assistance. On balance. Begin had a lot more to smile about than Carter. He proved himself a charming, highly skillful diplomat-personally far more appealing than his stiff predecessor Yitzhak Rabin and perhaps even Earth Mother Golda Meir. He engaged in a sort of love feast with the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: From Geneva Up to Geneva Down | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

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