Word: adept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their fashion, Pepi's counterparts in London (Hugh Shaw), Rio de Janeiro (José Gallo), Cairo (Abdel Basset El Taher) and Shanghai (the three Wongs) are equally adept. Shaw, a small, taciturn, greying Englishman whose way with automobiles approaches genius, will be long remembered by the squads of photographers he maneuvered through London's blazing streets for vantage shots of the blitz. Gallo is a politically indispensable young man who has somehow made himself welcome at the headquarters of all of Brazil's political parties. Abdel, an Upper Egypt man with the Egyptians' fine feeling...
...trick was to write dispatches with tongue in cheek, which the Soviet censors wouldn't notice, but any U.S. reader would. The New York Times's soft-voiced, scholarly Brooks Atkinson was a master at it. Drew Middleton, his chubby, aggressive successor in Moscow, has proved equally adept...
Appearing on the "One World" program, Fairbank said that a "doctrinaire type of thinking" tended to over-simplify the problem of revolution in China. Instead of handing out short-sighted aid, we must adept the long-term view of supporting a liberal movement that would remove the necessity for communism in China, he said...
...Crawford, is a comedian on the side. Though he had to peer over one of the most enormous cymbals ever affixed to a set of traps, and was situated somewhat obscurely at the very back center of the stage, the pained contortionings of his thin, mobile face and the adept drumstick twirling of his educated fingers got a great deal of attention from the audience. The drummer, the pianist, and the bass player, when they were functioning behind the clarinet, managed to build up a charged rhythmic setting which did fully as much for Edmond Hall as the tom toms...
...still so shy that she had no friends except animals. Her only excursions were to museums, where she drew fossils and costumes. At home, in the nursery where she still lived, she grew adept at depicting her animal friends in the settings she most missed. Rabbits, ducks, frogs, cats she dressed, on paper, in the human garments best suited to their natures, settled them in parlors of her favorite north-country homesteads...