Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agricultural output, and the men now operating them are netting on the average some $4,000 a year. It is this group of farmers around which the farm-policy argument turns. Their present income is lower by about 10% than it was three years ago. Considering the skill and the capital that their job requires, their income is low compared to other U.S. workers. But their position is not one of desperation or distress...
...Under Secretary to Texas' Oveta Gulp Hobby. Many an old hand in Washington thought that being Under Secretary to the second woman Cabinet member* in U.S. history would not be an entirely satisfactory assignment, but Rockefeller never cringed. Tactfully staying in the background, he used his experience and skill as a Washington administrator to get the new department on its feet, drafted the major planks in the Eisenhower welfare program, e.g., expansion of social security, federal aid for hospital construction. The career employees in HEW took a genuine liking to the millionaire who was humanly interested in their problems...
...call him a "Nehru in a Homburg," has hinted that he now leans toward the idea of releasing West Germany from NATO in the hope that the Russians would then free the entire country. The West Germans, of course, do not want any such "bargain." Pearson dodged with practiced skill, but did not deny it when a correspondent asked whether he would raise this issue in Paris. "We'd better wait and see," he said. "That's a very good question...
...spot where New Yorker Aaron Burr was captured in 1807), for a day of hunting with his host, Democratic Representative Frank Boykin, and Alabama's Governor James Folsom. Before breakfast Harriman had shot a 22-lb. turkey; after a quail breakfast, the huntsmen took off to try their skill against the deer on Boykin's 100,000-acre preserve. Although he tried three different stands, Harriman had no luck. That afternoon Harriman spoke to some 500 who had been invited to meet and greet him at a barbecue. He was introduced by Boykin as "the next President...
...faults of the earlier sketch are soon forgotten. Not that this second play, Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning, is perfect. Set in a New York restaurant, it too has no discernible plot and merely states some fairly vague ideas on the nature of reality. But the skill of the actors makes a play which might well have been tedious into amusing and sometimes though-provoking entertainment...