Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usually such rewards go to the soft-handed-like stock market jobbers, suave promoters of semi-useless gadgets-or to some superjock adept at little boys' games. So when a worker can achieve semimillion-aire status by his skill and sweat, I say cheers...
...than that he and his friends are a dirty lying bunch. Or, put in language close to home for us here at a university. Nixon is convincing Americans that they live in a Hobbesian world of fearful manipulation, and that they ought to be manipulated by someone who is adept...
Despite all this, The Godson's elegiac mood and spacious sense of style reveal undeniably adept direction. Except for his Doulous - The Finger Man, an atmospheric thriller that appeared in 1964, Jean-Pierre Melville's work has been little seen in this country. He himself popped up in Godard's Breathless, where he played a celebrated film maker giving an interview to Jean Seberg. In France, in deed, he is celebrated for melancholy Gallic exercises in gangsterism, American style...
Fordham-Columbia: The Lions are really adept in self-delusion this season. I've never seen so much propaganda flush out of one school. Paul Kaliades for the Heisman Trophey. Hold the phone, Frank, let's put it back in perspective. Unfortunately, Fordham is just learning how to play football and is embarking on its first real varsity season. So for now at least, Lions...
...Katz points out, Connally and Johnson were polished politicians, adept at their art, and in that way much unlike their successors, Smith, Mutscher, and the rest, whom the author calls "second stringers." Only one man among them Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, seemed to be cast directly from the Johnson-Connally mold. And even Barnes, despite being more clever and more personable than his fellow legislators, had his political fortunes spoiled by his association with the Smith-Mutscher clan...