Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the 70-odd writers and critics present in the yellow brick Moscow Oblast Court must have been one adept at shorthand, because this account of the two-day trial is detailed and chillingly convincing. How it reached the West, British Editor-Translator Max Hayward does not say, but it must have followed a secret route like the one that brought him Sinyavsky-Tertz's The Trial Begins in 1960. That grotesque account of a woman who procures an abortion during the black days of the Stalinist "Doctor's Plot" of 1952 was a key element...
...scored 24 out of 25 in a color test, and can sing familiar anthems, hymns and Home on the Range. While he cannot write script, he prints left-handedly. He can pick out the right answers to simple arithmetical problems. In one-handed manual tasks, Coe is more adept than most men. Long bed confinement delayed his relearning to use his right arm, but he is now improving in this...
Power, in a far less grandiose sense, is one of the daily pleasures of the middle-ager. Adept at his job, he has learned how to channel his energy, and can place Archimedes' lever in the exact spot that will shift the world a trifle closer to his heart's desire...
Promised Pools. Daley, a usually adept if routine machine politician, has consistently fumbled his dealings with the Negro population that makes up nearly one-third of his constituency. He is also resentful because King has made Chicago his primary base and target in the North. The day before the riots started, the two men conferred about housing, job opportunities, police brutality and other issues. They got nowhere. Daley later charged that workers on King's staff were in large measure responsible for the violence. (Subsequently he withdrew the accusation.) At week's end the mayor belatedly announced that...
...failed to win all available seats it would be proof that the elections were rigged. "You can be a friend of Kenyatta's only if you crawl and cringe like a hyena," he cried. "He is a frightened man with a little heart." Jomo proved to be equally adept at badinage. At a rally in Nairobi, he warned that the dissidents were prepared to buy votes. "If these people offer money," he said, "you must know it is foreign money meant to undermine the sovereignty of our country. Beware of this political prostitution. Take the money-but vote...