Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to describe such secret agonies, Author Hobart may have attempted too much, but the hand that lit the memorable Lamps of China has not lost its skill. After journeying to Hong Kong last year, at 72, she has reached deep into the heart of the present darkness. Her novel evokes the "New China"-public confessions, students marching and singing. "Defeat the savage-hearted American wolf," brainwashed Mu San leading a party of schoolchildren to a beheading in order to harden Communist discipline. Venture into Darkness is a terrifying look at a tyranny trying to convert China into "600 million...
...representatives at Bonn voted decisively to put their trust in and join their forces (50 million people and eventually twelve divisions) with the and-Communist Western powers. At Bangkok the SEATO nations set up permanent headquarters for the defense of Southeast Asia, and U.S. policies were advanced with skill and success. For the affirmative decision at Bonn, the U.S. could congratulate itself on having a rocklike friend in Der Alte, Western Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. For the common consent achieved at Bangkok, the U.S. thanks the (literally) shirtsleeve diplomacy practiced by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles...
...chief of the Vice and Narcotic Brigade. A Parisian cop since 1925, "Loulou" Métra, a mild, tactful and polite fellow, had an insidious talent for winning the confidence of shady characters. The labyrinths of Parisian vice being what they are, Loulou was also skill ful at extricating prominent citizens from embarrassing situations. Once he got the delicate task of recovering a royal jewel impulsively presented by a visiting for eign prince to a professional homosexual...
...built up. The experience gained by British industry in designing and building nuclear power stations during the next ten years should lay the foundations for a rapid expansion both at home and overseas . . . We shall then be in a position to fulfill our traditional role as an exporter of skill...
...went home an also-ran. Last week the pretty premedical student from Radcliffe College seemed to dare the same accident to happen again. Flip she did-to perfection. She whirled through all her other maneuvers with the same precise skill. For the second time in three years Tenley Albright, who kept on skating despite an attack of polio in 1946, took the title to the U.S. In second place: New York's Carol Heiss...