Word: adept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Survival on the Frontier. As Meriwether makes plain, it took a tough and stubborn man even to survive on the frontier. Mostly because he was big and brawny, and adept with both his fists and a gun, he managed quite well. But even after he became territorial Governor of New Mexico, he had to sleep with a shotgun by his side because some rowdy opponents threatened to tar and feather him. He had contempt for anyone who walked away from a fight. That included famed Kit Carson, who served under him as an Indian agent. Carson prudently ran away...
Reagan and his followers are already adept at exploiting the kind of fears that Watts rioters instilled in California's casual bigots. But they are probably just beginning to learn how to play upon the battles between the generations that are behind the other threats to the way of life of middle-class Californians. Reagan has said that he will have something to say about Berkeley in his campaign next year, but the slick political management firm he hired has probably not quite decided what it is yet. All anyone can be sure of is that in a conflict between...
Yardling coach Henry Lamar's balanced, straight T offense is capable of finding plenty of holes in Princeton's porous defense. Steve Ranere and Lionel Kaplan are rangy, adept receivers for the accurate short passes of Stargel and George Lalich, Gatto, John Tyson, and punter Joe McKinney pace a powerful inside running attack, with Gatto always a breakaway threat...
...give up one of the precious pair by installing his own man as Speaker unless he could talk the Tories or the Liberals into supplying a candidate for the job. The Tories are not likely to volunteer readily, for they would like nothing better than to see how adept Wilson is at one-upmanship when the House reassembles in October...
Fowler is an adept negotiator who prepares for every task with compulsive thoroughness. He can be simultaneously friendly and cautious, has a disarming sense of humor. He also possesses a broad, basic background in all areas of the U.S. economy, and a political instinct that has been finely honed during a Washington career of some 32 years, roughly half in Government and half in law practice. He has countless friends in Congress and the business establishment, and he has the ear of Lyndon Johnson, who can hardly find enough adjectives to express his admiration: "He's prudent, careful, able, loyal...