Word: adept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some surgeons inject alcohol into those nerves. The alcohol paralyzes the nerves and makes them as useless as though they were severed. But few surgeons are adept at hitting the quarter of a square inch under the collar bone for which they must aim their hypodermic needles. Dr. Marvin thinks little of the procedure, but said it is the only sensible thing surgery has done for angina pectoris or coronary disease...
...Obviously," says the "New York American" in a front-page editorial, "for the purpose of making adept COMMUNIST PROPAGANDISTS out of them...
...Hearst lobbyist is John A. Kennedy, who went from Iowa to get a job on Hearst's Washington Herald, work up to his Universal Service. Plausible and pontifical, he is equally adept at slapping Congressmen on the back or awing them with suave dinners at the Metropolitan Club. Nominally a newshawk, he resigned temporarily from the Congressional Press Galleries in 1932 to swing around the country coaxing antiWorld Court commitments from Congressional candidates, lately resigned again to head the latest Hearst offensive against the Court...
...come up to the heroic proportions with which we have mentally endowed the great general, and when he totteringly asseverates that he is "a soldier, not a politician," we somehow assume that Disraeli is indulging in a charming bit of modesty. The real Wellington would have been less adept in saluting the sophisticated ladies of the French court, less solicitious about the brewing of his tea, perhaps more brusque and profane at the council table. And then a soldier must be a man who is willing to throw thousands of his gallant countrymen into the cannon's mouth to test...
...orphan from an early age, Henri learned the mysteries of his profession from his foster brother, Jean Camous, became a precocious adept. At ten he had embarked on his career, soon found there was more to it than gravy. In England he nearly starved, but he learned the language and what little there was to know about English cookery. His peregrinations over Europe in pursuit of his muse were interrupted by military service, but even in the army his talents came to the fore, got him the pleasant billet of cook to a general. A civilian again, he married, took...