Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three of the performances deserve special acclamation. Bill Evans, the rave of the jam session, came back and did a soft, imaginative and expressive set which was not, however, as good as his previous performance. Billy Taylor, formally the leader of the band on the David Frost Show, played brilliantly...
(11 of 13) House could leak a news story on why the leaking of Government secrets is bad. Dean seemed to falter only under the persistent and skillful grilling of Senator Gurney.
His swift recognition of China-an act endorsed even by the opposition-has led to important new trade ties. His dogged opposition to proposed French nuclear tests in the South Pacific has earned him widespread acclaim. The Labor government's skillful renegotiation of mining contracts with Japan (to offset...
His citation read: "For twenty-five years our steward, skillful, prudent, steadfast; he used his talents for Harvard's welfare--and wondrously multiplied her inheritance.
YET THE BIGGEST mistake many of Dunlop's adversaries made was not to take him seriously. He refused to play the game by Harvard's rules of quiet civility, using his style as a hard-boiled tough egg, two-fisted beer drinking labor negotiator to keep his opponents off-balance...