Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most basketball stars have one great talent: Russell's is defense, Elgin Baylor's is shooting, Bob Cousy's is setting up plays and passing. Chamberlain does almost everything, better than anyone else. He is the pros' fiercest rebounder, and his shooting repertory includes such inimitable specialties as the "Dipper Dunk" (in which he simply stretches up and lays the ball in the basket), the "Stuff Shot" (in which he jumps up and rams the ball through the net from above), and the "Fadeaway Jump"-a delicate, marvelously coordinated push shot from 15 ft. away that...
...current tour there is less than two years old. Cut off from headquarters in 1952 when Bank of America was obliged to surrender control of Transamerica Corp. where he was then working, Peterson could not immediately return to Bank of America without touching off a talent war between the bank and Transamerica. So he retired to a neutral corner as president of the Bank of Hawaii, was finally called back to Bank of America...
Single Policy. In 2½ years of Congo turmoil, Union Minière has demonstrated a remarkable talent for survival. By paying Tshombe $30 million to $40 million a year in taxes, royalties and duties, and by shipping its exports out through Rhodesia and Portuguese Angola, Union Minière throughout the Congo crisis has maintained its rank as the world's third biggest producer of copper and its biggest producer of cobalt. The company's sales did fall some 20% last year, but that was because of the slump in world metal markets. Union Mini...
...also avoided limiting the amount of work professors do off-campus. Nathan H. Frank, professor of physics at MIT and chairman of the committee which has been reviewing MIT's policy on industrial moonlighting, suggested that the advisory work is unavoidable. "The need for top talent exceeds the supply," he said, "and we must recognize that as long as this condition exists the nation must use talented people in multiple capacities...
...exception. Along with writing a play, choreographing a dance and reading A Tale of Two Cities, Roeper's seventh-graders were back in school this week after having spent Christmas voluntarily finishing up their first year of high school algebra. Tuning up for the school's spring "talent fair," a sixth-grader had polled all no state legislators on their views of Michigan's proposed new constitution. A seventh-grader fed radioactive food to mother mice to study its effect on sucklings; his pal built a Geiger counter to help out. One eighth-grader analyzed Detroit newspapers...