Word: adeptly
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...variation on the following scene. The narrator, always a 35-ish man with a nondescript name and nondescript job, often between marriages, is some where nondescript, actively pursuing passivity. While the T.V. chatters or the traffic light delays changing, a woman unexpectedly enters. She is physically striking, socially adept, completely confident of her welcome, and with minimal explanation she sweeps the narrator up in a sequence of events beyond his control. Sometimes there is sex, but not often, any moves in that direction the woman initiates and the narrator resists or ignores. More often than not, though, he winds...
Watson was especially adept at motivating workers and inspiring loyalty. He personally commissioned a company songbook and led employee gatherings in numbers Like Ever Onward.* The song was belted out with gusto during get-togethers of the IBM 100% Club, made up of members who have met 100% of their sales goals for the previous year...
...Foege the most. "I fully anticipate that possibly in our lifetime we will see another flu strain that is as deadly as 1918. We have not figured out good ways to counter that." The same holds for the most common of bacteria and viruses, like the staphylococcus, which are adept at evolving into new forms...
Comparisons with Soviet behavior, protests over covert action and the latest bureaucratic maneuvers in Washington have tended to obscure the fact that Marxist-led insurgents in countries like El Salvador are as adept as the U.S. and their clients in their use of firearms. A faction of the Salvadoran rebels reaffirmed that fact last week. Having taken credit for the May 25 assassination of U.S. Military Adviser Lieut. Commander Albert Schaufelberger III in the capital of San Salvador, the so-called Popular Forces of Liberation (F.P.L.) warned that the guerrillas would now step up armed attacks against military...
...replace the humans who are supposed to press the buttons that start World War III. Poor WOPR (for that is its name) is an innocent. It thinks the war games it knows how to play are no different from chess and other harmless entertainments at which it is adept; it cannot distinguish between pawns and people...