Word: adept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lohman, a Paraguayan who used to cook at a Concepción hotel, runs the Red Wells ranch house, has become adept at buckwheat cakes, fried chicken and hot biscuits. Of Lohman's nine children, only 3½-year-old Juancito is still at Red Wells...
...election, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, 67, the courtly onetime Quebec corporation lawyer, would head the Liberals. As a party leader, he had already given a good account of himself in Parliament, had proved adept in the rough & tumble of political infighting. Moreover, he had won the admiration of his followers. Toward him they felt an almost paternal protectiveness. "We've got to win this one for Uncle Louis," they said...
...first only to his mother and his crippled brother (Arthur Kennedy), Midge gets his start in a fight-club preliminary. With a natural yen for money and bloodletting, he soon gets a professional manager (Paul Stewart) and starts dropping other middleweights like bulls in a stockyard. He also becomes adept at dropping his friends, usually with a kick in the teeth. In one way or another, he gets rid of his bride (whom he married at the point of a gun), his manager, a couple of girl friends, and even his brother...
...current Amir of Bahawalpur is 45-year-old Sir Sadiq Mohamed Kahn Abbasi Bahadur. He was polished by English tutors, became adept at tennis and polo. One of his four royal wives is British-born. The Amir, however, has never been strongly attracted by British ideas on democracy. He was one of India's most despotic rulers. When India was partitioned and Bahawalpur became Pakistan's second largest state, the Amir became one of the Moslem League's sharpest thorns...
Coach Jimmy Reed's wrestlers were more adept, more deliberate, and generally in better condition than their opponents. They were, in short, better wrestlers. For example, Dave Poor, who best Dave Smith at 128 pounds, has lost only once in four years of dual meet competition...