Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent months informed sources in Belgrade and Warsaw have been proclaiming the existence of a "Stalinist" challenge to Khrushchev, allegedly headed by Theoretician Mikhail Suslov. Suslov, a grim-lipped fellow adept at writing manifestoes, may indeed be swimming in trouble instead of in the Black Sea, where Khrushchev said he was. But the evidence that he is the kind of man, or has the party strength, to offer an effective power challenge to Khrushchev is thin indeed...
Bragging Rights. Despite such minor frictions, most newsmen hoped that the Yates pact would continue in force (though the A.P. complained that it created an "in-between shadowland"). While Airman Yates (who also has a master of science degree from Caltech) had previously proved more adept at dodging newsmen than dealing with them-notably as General Eisenhower's top U.S. weatherman through the Normandy landings-he had clearly succeeded in bringing cooperation out of chaos at Canaveral. Already well liked by the press, the Maine-born general won new popularity at week's end by giving newsmen handsomely...
Signs & Wonders. Those adept at deciphering the message in a parable will be happy to wrest their own truth from The Sibyl. The supporting cast of human symbols is not hard to identify: there are the Pythia's pious, humble parents; the lowly, kindly oracle servant ("little friend of god and man"); the mean old spy who cares nothing for god but only for his temple. These are, for good or ill, like unto other men. But the Pythia and the Wanderer are set apart because they have been touched by God; he works on them not merely "signs...
...interwoven with the model girl who never drank, smoked or rock-'n'-rolled, who was equally adept on the violin or in a choose-up neighborhood football game, was another girl who emerged last summer. Three times police spotted Christine aimlessly wandering Westchester County highways at night in jeans and sneakers; three times they packed her back home. "She was unhappy, but she never said just why," observed a girl friend. "Maybe she was lacking in love and affection at home," suggested Patrolman Daniel Rosato, who picked her up in November, handcuffed her when she scratched...
...Patrick Fay kept stumbling over gender: "Gimme a closeup for her," and a second later, "Tighten up on his face." But with little show of emotion on his delicate features or in his contralto voice, chain-smoking Kahler gave a forthright, fascinating case history: his masquerade had grown so adept that from the age of 18 he had earned his living not as a female impersonator but as a woman and nightclub B girl. Wyatt's questioning brought out that Kahler had never known his father, that he came under the strong influence of his mother...