Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case, the committee members were paternally patient, indulgent even, as they questioned, one after another, the fixers and followers and bearers of messages. As the witnesses testified, they soon revealed that they had been drawn into the affair without quite realizing what they were doing, that they were more adept at taking orders than understanding them. John J. Caulfield, an ex-cop who had carried an offer of Executive clemency to convicted Watergate Raider James W. McCord Jr., described how he had been "injected into this scandal," how he had been forced to choose between obeying the law and obeying...
Geoff Muldaur, who co-founded the Kweskin Jug Band and was with them up until it disintegrated in 1969, is one of the main reasons Better Days is so different from Butterfield's previous band. Muldaur is an adept slide guitarist who carries several blues styles with him. He also contributes betwixt-and-between vocals (which are even better in live performance) and comes up with enjoyable arrangements. The drummer, Christopher Parker, is perfect in his blues discipline, delivering a steady, unadorned beat. He and bassist Billy Rich make up a solid, healthy rhythm section. Then we come to Butterfield...
Since it was kicked out of the U.N. in 1971, Taiwan has become ever more isolated diplomatically. But its emissaries have proved adept at gaining entrée to the markets and financial centers of some of the very nations that have barred them from foreign ministries. As a result, the island country has attracted enough trade and investment to overtake even Japan in the speed of its economic growth...
...couple's declines are mutually encouraging: when Claire's taunts grow more intense, Sebastien begins to crack, at one point tearing his clothes to shreds with a razor blade, contorted with all the suffering he had held back so long. Kalfon's performance is as adept as Ogier's: he balances Sebastien's aggressions with his complicated professional finish...
Alan E. Heimert '49, Cabot Professor of American Literature, who was also considered a possibility for the position, similarly trailed the field, primarily because he was not believed adept at Faculty politics, the sources said...