Word: adept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article of war, her men learned to hide her under water layers where sharp changes of temperature would foul enemy sonar; they practiced with the Navy's new, very low-frequency radio gear with which they could receive messages from 6,000 miles away without resurfacing. They became adept at using Polaris' SINS (Ships Inertial Navigation System), the mare's nest of gyros and electronic equipment that locates George Washington on a precise spot on the globe so that she can dial infinitely accurate directions into her missiles. There were star-tracking periscopes and radiometric sextants...
...other general staffs-until a month ago, when Khrushchev, in an offhand remark at the Czech embassy, revealed that the marshal had been given command of Russia's brand new rocket force. A member of a favored branch (Stalin once called artillery "the God of war"), Nedelin became adept in World War II at Stalin's vaunted "artillery offensives," massing 300 pieces or more for each kilometer of front. His rise to favor with Nikita apparently began when both men were serving in the Ukraine during...
...Words. And while the shot-putters are setting records with the 16-lb. ball, they are proving themselves equally adept at flinging insults. The main target: veteran O'Brien, a haughty sort who makes no secret of the fact that he thinks himself king of the whales. O'Brien started the war of words when he called Nieder a "cow-pasture thrower" with "atrocious form." Nieder replied angrily, accusing O'Brien of fearing to face him in direct competition. Asked Nieder at one meet when O'Brien failed to show up: "Where...
...settled in Sarasota hard by a rival Harvard classmate and fellow prizewinner, Paul Rudolph (TIME color, Feb. 1). In the scramble for commissions, Lundy made his reputation when he designed a handsome drive-in church for as little as $35,000 by using laminated southern pine. He proved equally adept at designing commercial structures. A flower-shaped furniture showroom in laminated redwood pulled business right off the highway. His Warm Mineral Springs Inn, sheltered by 75 overlapping concrete shells suggestive of the nearby tourist-touted "Fountain of Youth," was such a successful traffic-stopper that the luxury motel was forced...
Vladimir Babbitt is not a compulsive but a compulsory joiner: his party card is his badge of acceptability. But whatever the country and whomever it profits, a wheel is a wheel is a wheel. Production quotas must be met. Fear and pride make the Red executive an adept at the fine but dangerous art of cooking the books; thus there is more Potemkin fakery than socialist realism in Soviet statistics...