Word: skillfully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Manhattan, its outgoing president, Henning W. Prentis Jr., of Armstrong Cork, bespoke the general uncertainty when he asked the Government to define the businessman's new role. A few at that Congress already understood that the best deal they could make with the Revolution was as men of skill and money, not of power. They sensed that their role in it was simply to make money-hard, sterile money, but money to which the world's only remnants of freedom were still attached. The Revolution frowned on challenges to its power. It smiled on men who still wanted...
...Adams cousins. Sam & John. Purpose of the plot was to replace Washington by General Horatio Gates. Now Historian Knollenberg reviews the documents to conclude that no such cabal ever existed, that the long-lived rumor was due in part to Washington's touchiness, dictatorial arrogance, "disingenuousness," skill at passing the buck for his own mistakes. In part it was due to wild statements by ambitious young Marquis de Lafayette. If there was any Conway cabal, in short, it was a cabal against Conway. His enemies were Washington and his Army clique, and President of Congress, Henry Laurens...
...Krasner fiddled so hard he nearly dropped his bow. The bewildered audience couldn't tell whether all of Schönberg's "unplayable" notes were being played or not. When it was over, the orchestra looked embarrassed, the audience, impressed by an obvious feat of strength and skill, drowned out a few discreet hisses with well-bred applause...
...this critical moment is of greater importance than over before. With startling and incredible rapidity, volcanic changes have swept over the world, smashing at the ways of life and thrusting at us urgent problems of the most fundamental type. Many of these problems depend for their solution upon skill in administrative management...
...Oscar with his eerie effects in Wuthering Heights, has this year supplied two more candidates with The Grapes of Wrath, The Long Voyage Home. Toland's daring, imaginative style has earned him a reputation as the Artist of the cameramen, even though he is somewhat shorter on technical skill than his top-notch competitors. After 20 years at the job, Toland, now 36, earns $62,000 a year from his contract with Samuel Goldwyn, lives a quiet, unsocial Hollywood life in spite of his upper-bracket salary...