Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Green Valleys. In 100 years the Mormons have won their war with wastes of sagebrush, sun-parched alkali flats and barren mountains. Their desert has indeed blossomed like the rose. Orchards, dairies and sugar-beet fields in green Utah valleys are a tribute to their skill at irrigation, and great stands of wheat prove the worth of their dry farming. Utah's 555,000 cattle and 1,646,000 sheep stem mostly from Mormon herds. Mormons built roads, farms, towns and temples across the West...
After waiting half an hour for Britain's Royal Family to arrive for the final match, Kramer went to work on fellow Californian Tom Brown. It was not even close. Kramer's big serve, with its high and tricky bounce, his skill at the net, his brilliant passing shots were all going like clockwork. It was all over in 45 minutes: 6-1, 6-3, 6-2, but Kramer was convinced that he had put on a lackluster show. Said he afterwards: "We were both excited and nervous before the match started because there was such a long...
...constructed. It centers around the boyhood and early manhood of Pip, who has spent his early years with his sister, the wife of a blacksmith. There are two completely separate plots, which Dickens, with characteristic wantonness, connects at the end by means of pure coincidence. Condemned as lack of skill, this deus ex machina shows only that the author was more interested in character, scene, and the fate of his hero than he was in the mechanics of plot...
...extended. Marie's portrayal of the opera's title character has had a lot to do with The Medium's success. She is by no means the world's greatest contralto, but she has what better contraltos often lack, a superb dramatic skill...
Chevigny expects to be "a going concern" as a radio writer "at least until television takes over." His skill is backed by a cold nose for the main chance: he sold NBC on his Plays by Ear, partly by the shrewd hint that a blind writer for an invisible medium makes not only good sense but also good publicity copy...