Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both captains said that they needed a strong sense of leadership to prepare the team for next season. Mason mentioned weight training in particular, but noted that because wrestling was an individual sport, most of their leadership would involve encouragement and organizational skill...
...ensuing Wednesday, however, in the comfortable confines of Hemenway Gym, the racquetwomen fell to Yale, a team equal in skill but mentally tougher. Jack Reardon, director of athletics, attended the tail end of that match...
This gripe aside, let the individuals whose skills kept the listeners tapping their feet receive their due. The eight women in the cast generally asserted their characters better than the men--it was easier to remember them from one number to the next. But, merged into a company, as at the beginning and end of the show, it was the performers' collective energy and not their individuality that shone. Der Manuelian made "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" both the opening and closing number. It served well--the chorus has an unforgettable tune...
...says one adviser, "must restore a sense of mutual trust and cooperation. He's got to change the background music, get rid of the rancor and put the whole relationship back on a candid, open and honest basis." Even these limited goals will tax Carter's formidable skill as face-to-face negotiator and healer of hurt feelings, for the Mexicans believe, with considerable reason, that the U.S. has long treated them with a combination of arrogance alternating with indifference. "Poor Mexico," an old saying goes, "so distant from God, so close to the United States...
...There's a mentality that goalies are not really players. Fans assume that we can't skate, when in reality such skill is vital to our success," says Fitzsimmons...