Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tricks. Just outside East Berlin is the Reds' highest training school for top agents-the kind who are equally adept at blackmail, crime, romance and business administration. Here the cream of East Germany's spy material spends a year under the intelligence elite (the HVA, or the Main Administration for Intelligence), headed by Russia's renowned Brigadier Markus Wolf...
Princeton was heavily favored that afternoon, and the only thing that kept Penn in the game was an incredibly adept pass defense ah Quaker defenders twice picked off Tiger aerials within the Penn 10-yard line. This sort of thing happens al lthe time with Penn, however, the Quakers lead the country in pass defense, having allowed only 23 completions out of 73 enemy attempts, with 10 interceptions...
...pieces of humor which should be well received. Miss Ryerson has a short story parodying we won't spoil it by telling what--deftly handled, neatly avoiding the dangerous pitfalls of overloaded farce. Miss Sogg's satire of new criticism, in an exploration of "Roses Are Red", is adept. One more panagraph would have brought it to the edge of boredom; one less would have been an improvement...
...turned into contagion and verbal smog (smoke and fog). Just to describe the new rash of alphabetease, linguists were forced to invent a new word: acronym (from the Greek akros for tip, onyma for name), which first appeared in dictionaries in 1947. Most insidious breeders are public relations experts, adept at spawning the punch word that sums up an organization, then, to fit its letters, turning out an often fatuous full title. Examples: WAIF (Women's Adoption International Fund) and the recently launched piggyback acronym YOU (Youth Out for UNICEF). Last week Mississippi segregationists coined yet another: SAFE, meaning...
...must have more military flexibility than it has had in recent years. The U.S. will continue to rely basically on the potential for massive nuclear retaliation, but it will also attempt to increase the capacity for fighting so-called "limited" or "conventional" wars, which the Communists have become so adept at pushing...