Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man wants to test himself on every side, in strength, in quickness, in skill, in courage, in endurance, and he will go through much to prove his merit. He wants to test himself provided he has faith the test is true, and that the quality tried is one that leads to manliness; otherwise he will have none of it. Now, we have not convinced him that high scholarship is a manly thing worthy of his devotion, or that our examinations are faithful tests of intellectual power...
...Tulsa Tribune's Nolen Bulloch is a canny, cool-headed reporter whose skill at unearthing stories of bootlegging, gambling and political corruption has earned him the title of "The Little Scorpion" among Oklahoma hoodlums. Last week Reporter Bulloch was indicted by a federal grand jury in Tulsa on the very charge that has jailed more than a dozen mobsters he has exposed in the Tribune. The charge: conspiracy to import liquor into bone-dry Oklahoma...
Disturber. Then came the grand jury and its indictment of 20 Oklahomans. among them Tulsa's police chief and police commissioner as well as Newshawk Bulloch. The mass indictment was all the more disturbing since there is no question in Tulsa of the integrity or legal skill of the prosecutor, a hard-driving U.S. district attorney named B. Hayden Crawford. Readers who flooded the paper with letters supporting Bulloch last week could only assume, as the Tribune does, that some of the liquor runners and prostitutes who testified before the grand jury may have been more anxious to quash...
Last week a record field, 69 spruced-up dogs from 16 states, came down to Maytag's 13,000-acre plantation near Union Springs. Ala. to sniff for the championship. Running in pairs, the dogs were judged on bird-finding skill, response to their handlers, and on two points that the experts agree are born instincts: pointing and ranging widely over the field. Many of the top dogs are able and willing to stay on point up to two hours and cover 15 miles during a 90-min. hunt...
...occupational malady of satirists, a sneaking fondness for the subject satirized. As a longtime professional soldier who enlisted in the French Foreign Legion at 17 and saw action with the Wehrmacht in France and Africa during World War II. he gives full marks to courage, loyalty and military skill. Turned blind, these virtues become the "Furor teutonicus," a vice at which Author Opitz takes wry derisive aim, proving that a laugh can be deadlier than a Luger...