Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...influence, died after repeated imprisonments. Nonetheless, it was the fight for independence that focused Nehru's talents and made him a man of destiny. Through it, he discovered peasant India and the fact that, somehow or other, he could manipulate its soul. And it was primarily for this skill that Gandhi, who may have been a saint but was above all a shrewd politician, named Nehru heir to the leadership of India...
...harder ticket" than Broadway's My Fair Lady-only nuns were admitted to its three performances, staged as a training project by the department of speech for the summer school that annually brings some 800 teaching sisters to Notre Dame. "You can't teach a skill if you have never mastered it," explains Drama Teacher Natalie White, who wrote and directed the show. It is her third such sister act, but her first musical, and it was a hearty success. The nuns in the cast wore no makeup and wore their habits throughout the show. The lyrics alone...
...back as the 1920s, competent Soviet physicists were contributing to the birth of nuclear physics. In 1938, when the critical news came from Germany that neutrons make uranium atoms fission (split in two) to yield enormous energy, Russian scientists reacted as excitedly as their colleagues elsewhere, working with impressive skill to establish the same key facts which would decide whether large amounts of nuclear energy could be got from uranium...
...from starting ... at scratch in 1945," says the Rand report, "the Russians should not have been, by that time, too far behind the knowledge and skill that had been achieved in the United States . . . Instead of being surprised that the Russians got the atomic bomb as early as they did, we should perhaps have been surprised that it took them so long...
...Oscar Wilde and Max Beerbohm, the tale became a highly sophisticated means of telling a story that would not be believable if told in any other tone of voice. In The Seven Islands, Novelist Jon (The House by the Sea) Godden makes the unbelievable believable by spinning with quiet skill a stately little tale about India and hanging from its frail threads the weight of an ancient way of life...