Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would not prevent him from enjoying one of his favorite sports, Father Edward M. Kennedy fitted out Teddy with special equipment. Ski Instructor Blair Ammons taught him to schuss all over again, using poles fitted with small runners for great maneuverability and balance. Praising Teddy's spunk and skill, Ammons said, "Quite frankly, his one leg fatigues less easily than both of mine...
...spirit he absorbed from his family and the land prepared him to cultivate the unfilled fields of electronic journalism. As co-anchor man of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report for 14 years, he became one of the country's most recognizable celebrities while earning respect for his skill as a newsman. When he left NBC in 1970, he returned to Montana, and it was there that he died last week of lung cancer...
...died before the age of five. Under Manchester's pall of smoke, pale families shuffled away their lives between cotton mill and hovel. Bad air, bad food, bad laws, monotony and danger were the workers' common lot. The din of machinery was a ceaseless taunt that whatever skill remained in their hands was irrelevant...
...Kilsonian analysis is one-dimensional because it is concerned exclusively with the functional dimension of black culture. The context of his characterization is institutions viewed as sources for blacks of skill-acquisition, not existential meaning. He is interested only in the production of highly qualified black graduates from these institutions, who will in turn become black intellectuals and professionals in order to enhance the black masses...
Shultz, a mild-mannered and courteous man who nevertheless argued his free-market principles with surpassing stubbornness, came to that authority by his loyalty to the President and skill at tacking; he is the last member of the original Nixon Cabinet still in high office. Shultz was dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business when he was named the Administration's first Secretary of Labor in 1968. After serving with quiet competence in that job, he was put in charge of the newly created Office of Management and Budget...