Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the 100-and 200-yd. butterfly and the 200-yd. individual medley as well. ¶ Although their only national champion, Epee Expert James Margolis, was sidelined with a pulled tendon, Columbia University swordsmen lunged across the ballroom of The Bronx's Concourse Plaza Hotel with such swashbuckling skill that they piled up 71 points in foil, épée and saber bouts, and won the three-weapon intercollegiate title. Second: N.Y.U. with 66. ¶ The Fish and Wildlife Service reported an alltime record sale of 19,276,767 fishing licenses and 14,918,416 hunting licenses...
What was really important to Lyndon Johnson-and to the Democratic record -was the fact that Johnson had once again taken possession of a key issue, given it the full force of his energy and legislative skill. Perhaps, happily, the recession would pass swiftly, and the economy would no longer be an issue. In a U.S. of fast political change, only one thing is really predictable: when the next hot issue comes along, Lyndon Johnson will build it bigger and better-hoping that it will do the same...
...form. Their favorite was only 28 lengths behind the leaders-for him that was hot pursuit. Maybe he was burning himself out early. But Silky had plenty in reserve. When the field carried wide on the stretch turn, he wove and darted toward the rail with the sure-footed skill of an All-American halfback. Silky shot under the wire a widening three lengths in front of his stablemate, Harcall. Said Harcall's jockey, Bill Boland: "He ran by me so fast, he darn near sucked me under...
...animal or vegetable apartment-house façades and phantasmal parks that out-Disney Disneyland delighted Barcelonians, even when they were surfaced for economy's sake in broken tiles, old pots and broken glass. Gaudi's greatest problem was that his designs demanded a craftsman's skill to execute and his on-the-spot presence to construct...
...similar occurrence took place among the Eskimos, who superstitiously exposed all the strange children to death, and in Russia, which ideologically blasted the unwelcome visitors out of the world with an atomic cannon. How will the commonsensical British deal with this nonsensical problem? Author Wyndham expends the imagination and skill of a serious novelist on resolving the question. Incidentally, he gives a depressingly convincing picture of British social life. Wyndham has chosen to write about the impossible but has the talent to prove that it happened in an all-too-probable place...