Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comments ran from one extreme to the other. "Intelligence plus," wrote one girl. "Extremely conceited," claimed another. The consensus, however, was that the Harvard man is "well-read, diversified--the ideal date." One said that he is "less socially adept" than his Ivy League counterpart, but she added, "I think they're nicer...
Outplaying Amherst in every department but shooting, the Crimson nevertheless lapsed, committing occasional traveling violations and throwing away passes, errors at which its opponents were even more adept. Both halves were marred by these errors, and by some atrocious officiating which was beneficial to neither team...
...disguise hides a man who is no organization-flouting rebel. Since he joined the faculty as a young instructor in 1937-he graduated from the college in 1932, spent three years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar-the tweed-and-patches professor has risen rapidly, proved to be an adept at faculty-meeting strategy. Masters of Yale's ten residential colleges are among the university's most respected faculty members; Mendenhall became master of Berkeley in 1949, soon won the loyalty of Berkeley undergraduates. Last year he became director of the Office of Teacher
...methodical handling of difficult situations, 67-year-old Premier Charles de Gaulle has nowhere shown himself more adept than in his dealings with Tunisia's hard-pressed Premier Habib Bourguiba. De Gaulle's predecessors, by refusing to withdraw French troops from southern Tunisia, by meekly backing the French military's unauthorized bombing of the Tunisian village of Sakiet, were slowly driving away the man in Arab North Africa who had shown himself most friendly and understanding toward the West, and most resistant to Nasser. French ineptness was also pushing Bourguiba into deeper alliance with Algeria...
Mason's performance, over and above his adept vaudeville bits, is faultless--a suave and perfectly controlled one, such as we often get from the best British actors and have usually got from Mason himself in his many movies from Seventh Veil through Julius Caesar to Cry Terror. He doesn't falter vocally for a moment, even when at the same time he has to give himself a complete shave with a straight razor or don a shirt with separate collar and French cuffs...