Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt has all her son's tact and skill in dealing with the Press. When ship-newshawks rapped on her stateroom door, she called out: "I'll have to ask you to wait for half an hour. My hair is not fixed and I must dress." Thirty minutes later reporters trooping into her cabin were greeted with: "Who are all these charming people...
...outline of policy the Leader employed utmost skill in stressing "Peace," but made clear that his Nazi pacifism is based on confidence that Germany will get what she wants from the Great Powers without having to fight...
...last month, it was great-jawed, ugly BELMONTE himself who led the parade with his embroidered cape twisted across his back and over his arm. For a long-retired veteran's comeback it had not been an unsuccessful season. All of his old courage, most of his old skill, were still on display. Because he always worked closer to the horns than other bullfighters, he had been tossed many times in a few weeks, but never seriously hurt...
John Hamilton, 35, bandit, whom Dillinger helped to escape from the Indiana State Prison last September. Month later Hamilton returned the favor by delivering Dillinger from the jail in Lima, Ohio, killing a sheriff. The pair robbed banks, shot policemen with precise criminal skill...
...America. In the early Christian era the Mayan culture attained the peak of its splendor. The priests invented a form of writing; the mathematicians and astronomers worked out a calendar; the architects built great cities and temples; the artisan modeled in stucco, wove textiles, carved and painted with rare skill...