Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alarm company one night, and carefully studied the Brink's alarm system. Every lock barrel on every door along their route through the Brink's building was removed by the gang during their nightly visits, fitted with keys, and reinstalled in the doors before morning with such skill and skulduggery that nothing was suspected. An awed detective who listened to Specs O'Keefe's story said that the planning of the crime reminded him "of those people on The $64,000 Question who know all there is to know about something...
...history textbooks that Americans have squandered their natural resources by slaughtering buffalo, raping forests, polluting streams, and plowing up soil-holding grasslands. As the youngsters grow old enough to read Government news releases in the papers, they are reassured that under scientific Government management, our countrymen are developing the skill of harvesting, rather than mining, American wildlife, timber, and land. Whatever its shortcomings in practice, most citizens come to believe that through planned conservation we may have our resources and reap them...
Fundamentals have always been Margarita's strong point. Many former players said that he always took a man aside to show him personally what was wrong with his form. Others laid special emphasis on his skill at handling the defense, especially pass defense...
Major credit for this accomplishment must go to the camera team of Alfred and Emma Milotte. They have managed to capture some of the world's most dangerous and elusive animals in intimate moments of playfulness and violence, a task requiring obvious skill and patience, and, one assumes, considerable risk. For once, the press agent's claim that it took three years to collect these few outstanding pictures is not only believable; it seems like understatement...
...delegates to the annual conference of the northwest area of Britain's National Association of Schoolmasters could scarcely contain themselves as the speaker from Lancaster ripped into the Minister of Education. Sir David Eccles, said the speaker, "has achieved the impossible. Alone and unaided and with consummate skill and genius, he has driven the meekest, mildest, most long-suffering body of men and women in the Western Hemisphere to revolt." The men and women in question were the schoolteachers of Britain. Their mood had never been more surly...