Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernadotte would need all his diplomatic skill. Israel and the Arab governments said that they had "unconditionally" accepted the Security Council's call for a four-week truce. But there were conditions to the unconditional: the Israelis had attached "assumptions," the Arabs "explanations." One of the chief obstacles to agreement was the question of immigration. Jews insisted that the Security Council resolution allowed unlimited immigration, even of men of military age. The Arabs claimed that Jewish immigrants were potential soldiers and should be barred during the truce period. By week's end Bernadotte said that this quarrel...
...Mexican land would feed its people well. Four hundred years ago Cortes had reported that the richness of Mexico was inexhaustible. Since then, the pine forests that held rain water on the mountain slopes have been cut away. The result has been drought. The Indians have lost their skill in terracing their fields, and their lands are gullied and eroded...
...Wong Wen-hao once wrote a book called Earthquake Regions of China. Last week he needed all his seismographic skill, for he was named Premier of the Chinese Republic-a vast earthquake region crumbling under the triple temblors of civil war, inflation and mass discontent...
...just to stay alive. But if the Western Hemisphere ever has to defend itself against an attack launched over the Pole, Western man must learn (as his enemy will presumably have learned) how to survive in Arctic weather, and still have energy left to fight. How to acquire that skill is the problem before the Joint U.S.Canadian Cold Weather Testing Station at Churchill...
...Without premeditation," he begins, "and in an indifferent light, we set to work at one corner of the immense canvas, upon which, as it stretches into darkness, we are to weave with so little skill the tapestry of our lives. The picture will never be finished and is marred by many confused, threadbare or mutilated passages, but at last and at a certain distance a Pattern will emerge which, though not of our designing, is the key and signature of Personality...