Word: skill
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Yalu-Soviet MIG-15s with swept-back wings and a speed of 600 miles an hour. Ground troops faced enemy units heavily equipped with tanks, automatic weapons, 76-mm. howitzers and multiple rocket launchers like the Russian "Katushas" of World War II. The men who handled the weapons displayed skill and high morale. Said one G.I. last week: "Those guys who hit us last night are the best we've run up against in Korea...
Santa Severina land is divided into good and less good zones. The best is an irrigable portion called Maestria because it needs skill to work it. The least desirable includes the land of San Francesco e Marucaro and some parts of Vallegrande. Then there are the middling lands, the Cuocino, partly dotted with olive groves. Nocella drew a poor San Francesco plot. A long sigh went through the crowd. The next name drew a middling plot. The crowd lost some of its tenseness...
When Andrew Carnegie put up the first $1,000,000 to start a school in Pittsburgh, ais objective was on the modest side. His first aim was merely to help the sons of his steelworkers to learn a skill or a trade. But the school collected a first-rank faculty, and Steelmaster Carnegie raised his sights. By the time he died in 1919, his school had become a full-fledged institute of technology...
...often sneaked off the job to smoke, drink beer and play cards. As a young railroad mechanic, he roamed from job to job, hitched rides on freight trains and occasionally panhandled when he was broke. But his curiosity about tools and machines was endless and his skill in using them not far from genius. After high school in Ellis, Kans., he started as a sweeper in the local railroad shop at 10? an hour. By the time he bought the Locomobile, he was superintendent of motive power for the Chicago Great Western Railway...
...autopsy performed yesterday revealed bleeding inside the brain and a fracture on the back of the skill, but no one knows whether both injuries were caused by one blow, or the cerebral bleeding caused a fall which resulted in the skull fracture...