Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-inning stint, rallied from a 4-1 deficit to overtake the Elis, 6-4. Offensively, Dave Singleton shone with a 4-for-4 day at the dish, but the big play was donated by little-used outfielder Bobby Jenkins. The speedy Jenkins, yet another one of Park's adept freshmen, singled as a pinch hitter in the sixth inning and eventually scored what proved to be the winning run when he scampered homeward on a wild pitch. He was met at the plate by a furious bear hug from Park...
...Playboy has become the most "conservative" of the sex magazines, some might argue that its newsstand decline only proves Gresham's law. But this morality play isn't all that simple. It has more to do with society's shifting sexual standards and who is more adept at exploiting them. In this, Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione, a canny tortoise, has at least drawn even with the Bunnies of Hugh Hefner, whose bigger but long overextended Playboy empire is in trouble. Only Hefner's London gambling clubs, which attract rich Arab bettors, are an unabashed success...
Keith Avery's Ssss is too adept at languishing and might fade away altogether if it weren't for the glowing tip of his cigarette and the intriguing pattern of color stroked over his body...
Building a national sense of urgency about the energy situation will take considerable powers of persuasion ? but then, Jimmy Carter seems as adept at using the bully pulpit of the presidency to persuade people as anyone since Teddy Roosevelt and his distant cousin Franklin. Carter seems almost to relish the coming combat. As he said last week, he intends to "convince the American people of the truth, using whatever means that I have at my command." Added Carter: "I believe that when they see the truth, they will cooperate in trying to cut down the waste of energy." This...
...running of the world's second-largest automaker. So, last week he announced that he will be joined in a three-man "office of the chief executive" by two other company heavyweights: President Lee A. lacocca, 52, and Philip Caldwell, 57, until now the company's adept executive vice president in charge of Ford's operations outside the U.S. (with $8 billion in annual sales, the largest of any U.S. auto company). The arrangement appeared to be a setup that would allow some other executive to bridge the gap until a younger Ford can run the company...