Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officers. But it brings the Red Army's top age level for privates and noncommissioned officers down to 32. Chief benefit to Russia (and probably the prime reason): farms and factories, starved for qualified man-&-woman-power during the war, will recruit millions of foremen, technicians and reasonably adept laborers for the new piatiletka (FiveYear Plan) recently announced by Stalin...
Franklin Roosevelt, adept at keeping his eye on the main chance, spent most of the week getting ready for the United Nations conference in San Francisco. The conference was still six weeks away, but there was no doubt that the President had pushed other matters with the notable exception of food for Europe (see above) -into the background, was bending every effort to make the conference a success...
Sniffs & Snarls. Boss Crump is adept at pitching epithets without catching libel suits. He had his 1,700 words of vituperation-in which the word "rat" appeared 14 times, "liar" 20 times-read aloud in both houses of the Tennessee Legislature, a cleansing process by which slander becomes legally privileged. Then he sent the whole caboodle to the Tennessean by messenger...
Where's the Meeting Ground? Adept at winding his way through the jungle of international trade laws, Thomas wanted to arrive at a common meeting ground for U.S. free enterprise and cartels. He discovered little to comfort free traders. His survey found no hope that the U.S., despite its mighty economic power, could force an agreement from other nations to end cartel-dealing in the postwar trade world. Instead it concluded that the cartelization of European industry, compulsory in some countries in prewar days, would not be changed by the peace. In fact, there may be even greater cartelization...
...Ruppel, 41, is a stocky, 6-ft. hellraiser, raised in Brooklyn and adept at hurling four-letter words out of either side of his mouth. He went ashore with the Marines at Kwajalein, has since been relieved from active duty. His three-word journalistic credo is: "Lots of sock." He took over as $40,000-a-year executive editor two months ago. At first the rumbles were confined to the Herald-American building, where he was engaged in shaking up his staff. Then he got out on the street, in trick headlines. Sample Ruppel banner when the Allies retook...