Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...players on last year's second place team, which had only 14 points scored against it (by Dunster in the first game of the season), are returning. Led by quarterback Rog Skemp, a high school all-stater from Superior, Wis., the Elephants will have, in addition to a very adept backfield, the heaviest if not the toughest line in the league. At one of the tackle positions Eliot will play Bill King, a 290 pound tackle who played football for Marine teams while stationed in Quantico, Va., the past three years...
Some of the most delightful moments of the evening came in songs which Miss Baez and Mr. von Schmidt sang together. Mr. von Schmidt revealed himself an adept at the harmonica, and both singers played on a cylinder of paper which makes a sound doubtless rarely before heard in the civilized world. At one point Miss Baez discarded one of these instruments by tossing it into the audience--it was a movement of incredible grace, a grace that is evident in her whole bearing, even when she is standing still...
...Senate. Growing in stature and skill from one crisis to the next, he proved to be a tough battler in oratorical jousts with the Russians, insisting on the value of immediate reply, rather than waiting for Washington to draft something official and late. He also became surprisingly adept at rounding up Asian and African votes on important showdowns. The U.S. never lost in either the Security Council or the General Assembly in a head-on clash with the Russians. Last year Lodge fell heir to a special test of diplomacy when he was assigned to be Khrushchev's official...
Touré was happy to accept Peking's offer of a $25 million, no-interest loan. But, already adept at the begging bowl, he was careful not to join in the open attacks on the U.S. or to mention any other Western nation by name when deploring imperialism. To do so would destroy the chance of wangling a bit of Western aid to supplement and offset the swag he had picked up from the eager Communists...
...Jorgensen, who became an early favorite with his Victor Borge-like humor, which puzzled spectators but intrigued the judges. Wearing a perpetual wry grin, the Dane began his performance by tapping on the rack to silence not the musicians but the judges themselves. For all his humor, he was adept at dodging errors, at one point marched angrily over to an offending bass player, pointing his baton and shouting accusingly. The orchestra later rewarded him with a flawless performance of Beauty and the Beast...