Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British, do not know the world. Indeed, they did not-and some appalling blunders resulted. U.S. education is ill-suited for foreign affairs, 19th century style. The educated Briton is reared for debate and negotiation as the Spartan for the spear. A good British Foreign Office man can, by effortless intuition, absorb the essence of a political crisis from a bubble of cocktail conversation. Americans will never be good at that. They will set up a million-dollar study project to find out what a Briton would learn by asking a girl to ask a man who knew...
AFTER years of effortless selling, a buyers' market has returned in some industries; in others, it is just around the corner. It is a strange kind of buyers' market, coming, as it does, in the midst of what is still a boom economy. For businessmen it raises an important question: When sales drop, should production be cut to bring it in line with sales, or should prices be cut to keep sales up with production...
...Booster Bob built the fair up to Texas-style proportions, too, with everything from prize Herefords and mohair goats to Ethel Merman and Mary Martin. He enlarged the Cotton Bowl, wooed out-of-state industries and raised prodigious amounts of money for the Dallas Symphony.* An effortless worker, he delegates authority freely, but expects his associates to be always on the ready line ("If it's gonna be a do meeting, O.K. If you're gonna run around like rats in a tub, I don't want any part of it"). No one goes to a meeting...
...Face in Court. Boston's bluestocking Back Bay Fifth Ward needed a new representative in the legislature. Herter had all the necessary social and political credentials and decided to run. In the effortless fashion of Back Bay politics, he got himself elected, and in 1931 made a gentlemanly debut in the House of Representatives of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (i.e., the lower house of the legislature). He was quickly recognized as a man of clear and analytical mind, who could cope competently with the most complicated legislative processes. In 1939, as a reward...
...made-for Hollywood-the daring decision to let Shirley, who was unknown to moviegoers, play in the movie the same role that she had already played to perfection on Broadway. She flew to the West Coast, shot the movie in a single month, and scored a complete and effortless conquest of the movie colony...