Word: adept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team. He would, of course, lean heavily on Tom Dewey, who is internationally famous, a standout executive, and a veteran leader in the liberal Republican movement. Here & there around the country were others, not so well known beyond their state lines, who were heroes to the home folks, and adept at political infighting. Maryland's Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, the man who nominated Eisenhower at Chicago, was a seaboard internationalist; Colorado's popular Dan Thornton was a western conservative. Together they reppresented the limits of the Eisenhower faith, but both were enthusiastic Ikemen and both could be counted...
...Despite adept leadership of both parties in both houses, party discipline on both sides was weak and party lines were blurred. An extreme example of this was last week's Senate vote on an important amendment to the foreign-aid program. The majority was made up of 27 Republicans and 26 Democrats: the minority was 17 Republicans, 17 Democrats and Wayne Morse. Reformers have long deplored rigid party discipline and yearned for independent legislators. More and more in recent years, Congress has moved in their direction as the power of patronage and party machines has declined. A Light Hand...
INVESTIGATIONS Joe's Bloody Nose Like most successful rough & tumble fighters. Senator Joe McCarthy always presses in, and is adept at forensic kneeing, gouging and butting. As a consequence, most of his senatorial colleagues give him a wide berth. But last week, when he set out to defend J. B. Matthews, executive staff director of his subcommittee, McCarthy finally gave his critics in both parties a wide and irresistible opening. They jumped him en masse, and Fighting Joe did not get up from among the cuspidors until he had the legislative equivalents of a split lip, a bloody nose...
Leadership is basically a matter of confidence, and at Harvard, where authority is so diffuse, confidence is doubly required. There is a conflict here, though, for the prime minister of any such organization must be policitically adept and ruthless if he is to meet today's problem effectively, traits which endear one to nobody. A Provost must somehow secure confidence while playing politics, a feat which Mr. Buck accomplished with astonishing success...
...attended a class or prepared the assignments. The German department claims that students' grades on the proficiency exam are almost directly proportional to their scores on the course material. But since a healthy share of that exam consists of isolated vocabulary words and idioms, many students who have become adept at recognizing words in context would have their grades jeopardized by this policy...