Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yardlings, running from the T, mix up their plays and try to use as varied an attack as possible. Rain today should hamper the Freshman strategy. Lamar stresses sharp, rugged blocking and savage tackling, and expects his team to make up in fight what it may lack in skill...
...difficult to please the audience when your act follows the star attraction, can be applied to Hollywood's expansion of the story. Hemingway is very "hard to follow." That Producer Mark Hellinger and Siodmak manage to do as well as they have is sufficient tribute to their skill. Employing no big name actors, they spin out a tautly wound picture which is very tough without the meaningless piling up of horror on horror that has plagued such productions as "The Big Sleep." Starting with the fact of the Swede's murder, the picture by a series of flashbacks tells...
First step in the development of a tenderfoot Russian athlete is a BGTO badge ("Be Ready for Work & Defense"), issued for skill in running, swimming, skiing-and shooting. Next comes a tougher test for the coveted GTO badge ("Ready for Work & Defense"). A GTO can swim fully clad, run 1.8 miles in twelve minutes -and make parachute jumps...
Schlesinger expertly plays the role of the good biographer in this remarkable book which deals with Conant the man as well as an age which found him the dominating figure in American life. The historian proves an objective critic, his testimony gives credit to his skill as reporter and writer...
Speed of Gannon, and skill of Phil...