Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...normal expectancy) had a second accident within 30 days after their first. It seemed to make no difference whether the pilot himself was at fault in his first crash; the experience was so disturbing to his self-confidence that it generally took him months to recover his normal flying skill...
...Italian businessmen than the current dangers of uncontrolled inflation. And the first results have been enough to give them hope that Italy-if provided with U.S. raw materials-may finally have a program that will cure her sick economy. The final success of the program will depend on the skill with which the De Gasperi government can combat the rule-or-ruin tactics of the Communists (see FOREIGN NEWS). But the program's first success last week was measured by the energy, bordering on fury, with which the Communists were trying to disrupt an economy which was showing...
...took nine years of study and travel to enable Dyer-Bennett, born a cousin of thirteenth British baronet Swinnerton Dyer, to develop his skill in the long-lost art of minstrelsy. Last summer he established the Dyer-Bennett School of Minstrelsy in Aspen, Colorado...
...Dick Harlow has played his cards with almost limitless skill. . . . There are some men who cannot be repaid for their effort in mere money, and certainly no amount of the stuff can have recompensed Harlow for the unequal struggles he always has fought and the brilliant victories he often has achieved. For this man, I ask the miracle of a victory." --November...
...spite of the Disney technical skill, it has never been a very good idea to mix cartoons and live actors. With genial showmanship, Mr. Bergen & Co. barely manage to save their part of the show. Most of the Bongo section is just middle-grade Disney, not notably inspired. And once Mickey & friends get involved with Willie, the whole picture peters out and becomes as oddly off-balance and inconsequential as its title...