Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failed to keep pace with modern banking methods, and the Rothschilds began to slip as effective powers in European banking. Today, the legend is very much alive-and being added to. Demonstrating the remarkable resiliency and power of survival that have enabled them to survive on their own family talent for two centuries, the Rothschilds are striking out in many new directions behind a silver curtain of discretion...
Lack of individual talent has rarely been the team's most pressing problem. The quintet annually has shown repeated flashes of ability, but has methodically blown games whenever victory seemed imminent...
When every national spokesman looks to the colleges as training grounds for specialists, and when the National Merit Scholarship Corporation proclaims that, "Talent is our most important national resource," General Education is a less popular rallying point. Within a community of scholars, it is difficult to say that scholarship is not sufficient training for a citizen of a free country, or to remind the Faculty of Conant's dictum that a liberal education is not necessarily a general education. It is not always easy to remember that "non-departmental" and "General Education" are imperfect synonyms...
...sounded like a talent hunt for rocket engineers. But this was pro football, at draft time, when the two leagues work up a lather over graduating college stars. In Manhattan, the American Football League drafted 160 players; in Chicago, the National Football League drafted 280-in a marathon session that started at 9:04 one morning, lasted until 6:47 the next...
Never changing a word, he writes with two pens, one for serious work and the other for less important tasks, as if the gift of language were in the pens themselves. To censure critics, he uses the pen that has less talent. Using the varsity one would be inhumane...