Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnny Monk provided the outstanding performance for the talent-ladden Yardling squad. His time of 54.7 in the 100 yard butterfly equalled the freshman record set by Bill Shrout...
While it cannot admit it publicly, the Canadian government is reported to welcome the flow of Americans here and is unlikely to deny landed immigrant status to many. For years one of the critical problems the country has been saddled with is the flow of brains and talent out of the country to the United States where wages are higher and prospects brighter. Draft resistance may reverse the flow...
...plan to draw in expert help for a national talent search was the frankly apolitical motion of Independent George Olesen, a parting gesture toward progress as he left public life. Politics is back now. And beyond the immediate danger that Cambridge will not even consider hiring a superintendent from outside its ingrown system is the deeper threat that the Independents will take the easy course of becoming a mechanically anti-intellectual, regressive majority...
Ambition v. Talent. Despite that assurance, the news stoked fresh doubts about conglomerates; some of them, warned American Bankers Association President Howard Laeri, "may turn out to have more ambition than talent." Such fears were quickly reflected on the stock market. Last week Litton's common stock, which sold for over $120 a share last October, closed at $73.37. Other conglomerate stocks, including Teledyne and Ling-Temco-Vought, also dropped sharply...
...words, spoken or written, were indulgences on a massive scale. His self-pity and his ruthless use of others, both in fiction and in reality (his own family, mistresses, editors), made it plain to friends and perceptive readers that Tom Wolfe asked more of life than he had the talent to pay for. So harshly did he caricature his native Asheville that the title of his last novel might have been a warning from its inhabitants: You Can't Go Home Again...