Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the business of establishing and maintaining a democratic civilization. Niebuhr is not easy to understand (TIME'S editors, at least, do not find him easy); but it is TIME'S job to make Niebuhr's thought clear to those of its readers who are not adept at the language of theological discussion...
...Radcliffe's more adept snowbunnies is shown above in a touching and not unfamilar pose. In fact, medical science is forever amazed at the pretzel positions assumed by the rubber-legged lasses from the city. Small wonder they would rather stay...
Wellesley's Mildred McAfee Horton stressed the importance of dealing with Communism "in the open." To back up her thesis that "students are adept at bursting bubbles," she cited the pre-war case of "a very attractive young Nazi instructress so clearly a pawn in the hands of her mentors that everything she said was torn apart...
...jump the wake, christy, and tailwag to your heart's content with only a few days of practice, and, as you become more adept, countless other methods of soaking yourself will appear. The ingenious inventors of this comparatively new sport have even stretched their imaginations to the construction of wooden jumps and slalom courses of elusive floats...
Manhattan ship news reporters generally are as adept at prying information out of incoming celebrities as the pilotfish is in deriving sustenance from the shark. Last week these bay-roving reporters latched on to a big one. They got some food for thought but remarkably little nourishment...