Word: adept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death in December, Congressman Lawrence Lewis was the lone Colorado Democrat in Congress. The First District is traditionally Republican. The Republicans, with a two-week head start in campaigning, have a strong candidate in Dean M. Gillespie, 59, who grew rich from cheese, oil and trucking, is a political adept...
Silverio, homely and nervous, is a gay showman. His capework is undistinguished and he is not adept in using the muleta with his left hand, but he works closer to the bull than any other matador in Mexico. He has been badly gored four times. Although he is not above pressing his body against the bull's side to pick up a bloodstain, when he does, the crowd has already seen the horn pass within inches of him. And for that the crowd adores...
...Japs. His 400 Million Customers (1937), the fruit of his 26 years of successful journalism and advertising in the Orient, became a best-seller in nine languages. But this week Carl Crow's twelfth book-The Great American Customer (Harper; $3)-proved that its author was also an adept in U.S. business history...
What the French lacked in footpower, they made up in teamwork and passing. Although the Crimson could outkick the men of the Richelieu by a country mile, the Frenchmen were more adept at the arts of the game and, with steadier land legs, could probably have scored more often...
...surprise of the evening came in the last two numbers where, in spite of the handicap of having rehearsed in a downstairs room of the Music Building and thus being unable to judge the acoustics of a larger hall, the orchestra proved admirably adept in getting across the brilliant tonalities of the Hindemith and Debussy-Busser selections without letting the fortissimos get out of hand...