Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What a pity that Updike has dedicated his talent to the "boudoirsie...
HALF a dozen times in the past four years, President Johnson has called upon Cyrus Roberts Vance to exercise his unique talent for peacemaking in crisis. When the Dominican Republic exploded in 1965, Vance supervised the U.S. military effort to prevent a Communist takeover. He directed the force of federal troops that restored quiet to Detroit after last summer's riots, and last month advised the capital's Mayor Walter Washington in the violence following Martin Luther King's assassination. In November, Vance negotiated a peaceful settlement of the Cyprus crisis; in February he soothed irate South...
...large, the Ed School commitment to urban problems remained small. The School was a long way from the torn textbooks, classroom spitballs, and ghetto ferment. Graduating students still fought for jobs in Newton, which (with neighboring surburban towns) had long commanded most of the Ed School's time and talent...
...recommendation of an usher in its ballpark? Answer: the New York Mets. O.K. But when that same pitcher then goes out and wins three games in a row, striking out 24 batters, allowing only 15 hits, seven walks and one run in 27 innings - well, that's talent...
...tennis gave their blessing to open competition between amateurs and pros. No amateur, they said, could hope to beat the older, more experienced pros. Last week, in the British Hard Court Championships at Bournemouth, England-the world's first open tournament-an obscure British amateur proved that the talent gap may not be so big after all. On successive afternoons, Mark Cox, 24, who was not even considered good enough to play singles for the British Davis Cup team, upset two of the game's biggest names: the U.S.'s Pancho Gonzales, 39, king of the pros...