Word: skill
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Skills. As a first step, the patients were moved to big, airy, first-floor wards with a view of the river's tug and barge traffic. Instead of cluttering the place with terrifyingly complicated equipment, everything was made as casual and simple as possible. Each patient was put to work for an average of five hours a day, learning or relearning the "100 average daily living skills." Each was assigned a card listing the skills to be acquired (e.g., walking, turning on lights, opening doors, turning over in bed, combing one's hair). When one skill was mastered...
...event of some consequence in Canada's history that young Willie King decided that night to switch to government service. Before he had been on the job many months, his skill as an executive and organizer caught the eye of Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Within nine years he moved out of the Civil Service and into Laurier's cabinet as Minister of Labor. When Laurier died in 1919, King took over as head of the Liberal Party...
Died. Sir Herbert Atkinson Barker, 81, self-styled "manipulative surgeon" whose skill in repairing dislocated joints and stiff knees with his fingers brought him fame, fortune, knighthood and-after the orthodox had long spurned him as a degreeless bonesetter-professional recognition; in Lancaster, England...
After seeing his performance in The Men, Hollywood began to believe Brando's extravagant advance publicity. His personal eccentricities, as well as his acting skill, had the film colony agog. He appeared to be the first genuine "character" since Garbo. Dressed in his usual cotton T-shirt and greasy jeans, Brando shunned the big stars and their glittering parties, brushed Hedda Hopper aside with a few vague grunts, spent most of his time roaming the back alleys and bars, sometimes without shoes. The $150 weekly allowance from his father (who invests the rest of Brando's earnings...
...dead. He takes refuge in psychosomatic illness, until a gentle, understanding nurse helps him to manhood and to a courageous acceptance of the human lot. One false step with this story would have taken Author Moravia deep into the treacle pit, but he handles it with unerring skill...