Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over par. Venturi, taking no chances at all, shot the same score. With only nine holes to go, the improbable seemed at hand. But the scoreboard showed one more pro still in there pitching. Ex-Marine Sergeant Burke, 33, a handsome, blond Ryder Cup veteran with a talent for finishing second in expensive tournaments, was chugging steadily toward...
...Beefed up with young talent and a brand new coach (George Senesky), the Philadelphia Warriors came back from three straight years in the cellar of the Eastern Division of the National Basketball Association to take four out of five games from the Fort Wayne Pistons and win the world professional championship...
Speaking to President Pusey and other interested faculty and students, he asserted that "the future development of American playwrights has become the responsibility of our colleges and universities." Because of the "risks of investing in untried talent, the odds against a young playwright's getting a hearing continue to mount," he continued...
...Since 1930 he has directed research and development programs. Before that he was a chemical engineer, small-town schoolteacher and all-Southern football tackle at the University of Kentucky. His background provided exactly what Wilson was looking for in his missiles chief: high technological skill, proven administrative ability, a talent for getting along with people, experience in a big organization...
Rubens once remarked: "My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast or various, has ever surpassed my courage." Of himself as a diplomat: "I assure you that in public affairs I am the most dispassionate man in the world, except where my property and person are concerned ... I regard the whole world as my country, and I believe that I should be very welcome everywhere." Even so sharp-eyed an English observer as Charles I's Ambassador, the Earl of Carlisle, wrote home from the Continent: "He made mee believe that nothing but good intentions and sincerity have...