Word: deftly
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...when the boat had been heaved into the water, in an orchestrated response to the orders Lynn had barked out, the clowning around continued. A frisbee flew out from the direction of the boat house and looked seriously in danger of hitting the water, before Nancy Storrs made a deft catch and tossed it back. It went straight up, curved, and landed splat in the river. Everyone groaned. "Okay," Nancy said, "do I jump in now or later...
...pills later. Soon it was show time again; as the lights and TV cameras clicked on for a joint press conference, the crews answered questions relayed from newsmen in Houston and Moscow. Leonov, fielding a question about the relative merits of Soviet and American space food, proved himself a deft diplomat. Said he: "It is not what you eat but with whom you eat that is important...
...eyes, the failure of the play. The play is intended to be uneven, in the sense that it veers from comedy to tragedy, and it is often difficult for both the audience and the actors to keep up with it. As far as the acting, it calls for deft switches from mocking subtlety to intense passion. Ann Marie Beigel, who plays Regina, remains at a level of intense passion, posturing so much that she becomes a caricature: Steven Gilborn, who plays Ben Hubbard, the sly son who plots his father's destruction, settles for mocking subtlety, so it comes...
...thing is that Hall has reason on his side. If you ignore his less-than-deft handling of the whole affair and set aside the question of why he didn't simply tell the checkers to look more carefully at people's bursar card photographs, the Identimat plan begins to make a certain amount of sense. It's possible that Hall did his thinking on a purely financial basis and failed to consider anything else, but it's also possible that he decided rationally that the hand-print machines were ideologically innocent...
...With his team down 2-0 to the Dallas Tornado at the beginning of the second half, Pelé set up a goal with a pinpoint pass to teammate Mordechai Shpigler. Then he scored the tying goal by deflecting a Shpigler kick past Tornado Goalkeeper Ken Cooper with a deft flick of his head...