Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans are handicapped," the Coach observed, "by a lack of a good sense of balance." Most hockey players in this country, he said, are "fellows with out too much experience." He pointed out that Canadian hockey players, for instance, spend most of their lives perfecting their skill in the game. A proposal of this kind, he stated, would protect the less experienced players from serious falls and injuries...
Says Procter & Gamble's Board Chairman Richard R. ("Red") Deupree: "Management today doesn't require specific skills. A successful manager has to have overall skill of management. It's something in you that wants to come out. Mac makes quick decisions. He makes 'em fast. No one can be right all of the time, but Mac is right a majority of the time. An executive has to be right just about all of the time. He is making maybe 100 decisions a day, but if he knows his business he won't have to think...
Most of these moves were admittedly stopgap; e.g., it is entirely possible that neither Jupiter nor Thor but the Navy's solid-fuel Polaris is the IRBM of the near future. Neil McElroy has not yet had to put his personal drive or his organization-man's skill to the fullest test. Before he is through, he will have to. For the U.S. Secretary of Defense is no longer a man who prepares for hot war while the Secretary of State wages cold war. Indeed, U.S. defense shortcomings have been a major factor in the weakening...
Ralph Bellamy portrays Roosevelt with exceptional skill, showing him as a bright, talented, but not terribly warm or sensitive young man first, and then rising through his illness. He avoids overdrawing the weaknesses of youth in the opening scenes, and gives a deeply moving portrayal of Roosevelt's affliction. Moreover, he not only resembles F.D.R. physically, he has also caught the essence of the Roosevelt voice that excited the country...
...trade in sticky pathos for pathos' sake. With such facile props as a small boy, a weird Chinese lady and a blind young Scot, they work up a mild tearjerker seasoned with laughs. But they invoke no tears, and only occasionally, thanks to Shirley's skill, do they draw laughter. Their play is every bit as tedious as it is unpalatable...