Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appeared to be quite adept at fielding questions and making coherent speeches when he ran for the Student Assembly post last Thursday...
...artist-authors prove adept at combing a broad range of styles. The influence of Arthur Rackham is clearly evident; so are touches as wide-ranging as Hieronymus Bosch, the Pre-Raphaelites and Maxfield Parrish. The result is a seductive ring of words and bright pictures that encircles mystery and merriment and, eventually, the reader...
...made side trips to the Soviet Union. To the British Foreign Office at the time, he seemed "a harmless individual if left alone, but apparently susceptible to outside influences." To his friends he was something of a dandy. He loved English suits and was equally adept at wheedling credit out of landladies and getting bright young girls to help him with his writing; eventually he married a 32-year-old Englishwoman, Edna Clarke. In 1935 he played a bit part in an Alexander Korda film, Sanders of the River, with his friend Paul Robeson. He was so deeply affected...
...Bernard Ryan, 34, an adept burglar thought to be part of the gang, was found shot to death in a car in suburban Stone Park. Two weeks later police discovered the mutilated body of Garcia in the trunk of a car at a motel near Chicago's O'Hare Airport. A fourth jewel thief associated with the gang, John McDonald, 43, was shot to death in a North Side alley in April...
...other areas, however, Carter has appeared less adept. Stung and baffled by the appearance of Cubans as an influence in Africa, the White House has alternately blustered and equivocated. The Administration failed to offer conclusive evidence for its charge that Cubans were deeply involved in the recent invasion of Zaire by Katangese rebels. To many observers, it seemed a risk of presidential credibility on a marginal and ill-documented controversy...