Word: adept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adept as Grassi was at getting money, he was even better at losing it. Last month, in one three-day spree in Monte Carlo, he dropped $490,000. A few days later, at Le Touquet, he lost heavily again, this time ironically playing beside an American businessman on vacation-Ralph Thomas Reed, president of American Express Co. Reed was not the only one who wondered at the recklessness of the mysteriously affluent Italian. A Parisian gossip columnist wrote an item about "a young Italian, Mr. Grassi, who never bets less than one million francs at a time at roulette...
...throughout the spring in compiling its own 5-3 record. Judging from last week's Yale game, the three quarters' passing, and running has tightened enough to produce one of the most potent backfields in the league, while the forwards, always strong and aggresive in the lineouts, have become adept at heeling the ball to the backs. If the Crimson can avoid injuries during the contest, it could provide some extremely tough opposition for the Nomads...
Spruance, first string for three years at Exeter, is an excellent performer in the crease. Reminiscent of last year's star, Dave Bohn, he is very adept at receiving passes in front of the opponent's goal and shoving the ball past the goalie. With attackman Grady Watts, great at breaking through the defense, Lentz has a valuable scoring punch...
...Buddha's disciples. Here, Munakata's simple and strident forms recall Indian and Japanese Buddhist paintings, while suggesting the forcefulness of the best of the German Expressionists. Though the prints may lack the mystical introspection of earlier Oriental religious works, their clarity and technical control show how adept and proficient a master Munakata...
...Boshi went after each other with everything from broken bottles to the deadly assagai-the short spear used by Chaka, the "Black Napoleon," to conquer his 19th century Zulu empire. At first the M'Boshi in their white headdresses proved more adept at carving up their enemies just as their ancestors used to do, but the Balalis, wearing leaves in their hair, retaliated by setting whole blocks of M'Boshi shanties on fire. The official estimate of the number of dead was 98, but bodies, mutilated, decaying or bloated, continued to turn up. The occasional white resident...