Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deacon Jack" Hurley, otherwise known as the "Conscience of Seattle," is a manager of professional prizefighters who suffers variously, according to his outraged complaint, from ulcers, insomnia, sinusitis, rheumatism and Republicans. Somehow he still manages to practice his furious skill for conning the public into supporting pugilists of wildly assorted talents, e.g., Billy ("The Fargo Express") Petrolic and Harry ("Kid") Matthews. In the current issue of Sport, Deacon Jack Hurley spells out his secrets for survival in a world beset by the dangers of women and other amateurs...
There is no doubting Thomas's skill. No profound intellectual, Dekker still possessed consummate wit, and produced a busty, gusty, lusty farce of great warmth and vigor. Teeming with bawdy doubles ententes, it makes Measure for Measure read like Sunday sermon. And when Dekker doesn't call a spade a spade, he calls it a steamshovel...
What a clear, inclusive sketch you made of Eero Saarinen [July 2]! Having been told the details of that life by his father, when I did his biography for the University Of Chicago Press, I realized the skill of this drawing. I only wish that Eliel were here...
...even for a Soviet diplomat, success is apt to depend less on personal skill than on the international appeal of the policies he is obliged to follow. Right from the start of his Middle Eastern tour, Shepilov ran into one setback after another. In Cairo, Shepilov's indication that Russia was prepared to underwrite the entire cost of the High Dam at Aswan was received with polite evasiveness by his old friend Lieut. Colonel Nasser, who, up until now at least, has indicated a clear preference for having the U.S., Britain and the World Bank finance...
Only a few hundred players make the grade in the majors, but those who do these days need only a minimal skill at managing their own finances to become men of means. Though few will become a Joe DiMaggio, the poor fisherman's son who rose to fame, wealth and social prestige, most will merit Professor Gregory's envious comment on the Yankee Clipper: "And the Lorde was with Joseph, and he was a luckie fellowe" (Genesis 39: 2, Tyndale's translation...