Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pick up one of these magazines is to be at once delighted and confounded-delighted by the skill of the writing and confounded by the fact that we have nothing to equal them in this country...
...fiery and excitable Sicilian of tradition, but deliberate and controlled to the point of pedantry. "He's one of those rare Sicilians who doesn't need to use his hands when he speaks," says one colleague. He and his family were well known as antiFascist, but medical skills were needed, and he worked in a navy hospital during World War II. At war's end Dr. Martino entered politics by joining the revived anticlerical Liberal Party. As vice president of the unruly Chamber of Deputies, he showed surprising skill at handling Communist quibbling and obstructionism...
Playwright Macken acts Paddo with a good deal of skill. But instead of exploring Paddo with a scalpel, he merely keeps coming down on him like a sledge on an anvil, while his victims' endless denunciations swell matters into an anvil chorus...
Such early-season skill was not easily come by. For two tough training weeks in Oklahoma's late-summer heat, Coach Bud Wilkinson had been driving his men to the ragged edge of exhaustion. Up each day before dawn, a leather-tough squad of 58 Sooners-including a nucleus of 20 veterans-had been busily belting each other groggy. The Wilkinson split-T breaks down into intricate offensive patterns, but the Wilkinson formula for success is simple: "Sweat, sweat, and more sweat." The Sooners sweated. Hour after hour. Quarterback Gene Calame pirouetted through a series of fakes to perfect...
...ringside seats at Yankee Stadium, the well-heeled fight mob howled for blood. "Don't kill him so quick. Rocky," begged an ex-pug, his fists doubled. "Cut him up first!" Charles was up at the count of two. With some of his old. dancing skill, the ex-champion rode out the round...