Word: skills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...digestive tract. But is the condition more common than formerly? Probably not, said Harvard's Dr. Herbert D. Adams at a regional meeting of the American College of Surgeons in Boston. The explanation, he suggested, is that the X rays are now being read with greater care and skill. And, he might have added, many more such X rays are being taken...
...handedness. Yet at a certain stage in its development, the baby discovers this by itself. To Bruner, this is as if the knowledge were already there. In all of his experiments, he has repeatedly been struck by the same suspicion: that intention (the will to do something) precedes skill (the ability...
Eisenberg emphasized that "gymnastics is the most artistic sport." A coach is essential because any routine or movement requires so much agility, coordination, and skill, he said. Now the gymnasts can only practice feats solely dependent upon strength...
Coached by Mike Andrews of the Myopia Hunt Club, the team pulled itself together. As riding and hitting skill improved, cries of "Which goal are we hitting for?" and "Who's on my team?" became fewer, and the melees became games...
Puzo had to do a great deal of inflating to blow his book up to the proportions of a bestselling beach ball. Yet he keeps it spinning brightly-if somewhat unevenly-with a crisp, dramatic narrative style. His professional skill is not surprising. Puzo, 48, learned what keeps a reader turning pages by freelancing and editing adventure magazines. Many of his Mafia anecdotes, he claims, come from his 81-year-old Italian mother. Puzo's own Mafia connections are strictly social. He enjoys frequent jaunts to the Mafia-backed gambling dens in the Bahamas. That he should thus leave...