Word: adeptly
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...week with reminiscences of how, as a young man of 17, he cruised around Long Island smashing windows with a slingshot to boost sales at his father's glass business. He told of swindling $30,000 from the Attorney General of Bolivia and, by age 50, becoming so adept at devising con games that he franchised them to other swindlers and earned the nickname "the McDonald's of con men." But in 1977, the FBI caught Melvin Weinberg, now 55, trying to fleece Singer Wayne Newton and several other people of $200,000. Faced with a possible three...
...President put the final touches on his program, some rebellious Senators moved forward with their own plans. Led by Louisiana's Russell Long, the Senate Finance Committee last week approved a $39 billion tax cut. Under the Constitution, all tax legislation must originate in the House, but the adept Senators attached the tax cut to a minor House-passed bill that would allow the Foundry United Methodist Church of Washington, D.C., to import six bells duty free...
...demonstrated in the classic j Great War and Modern Memory (1975), Fussell has the rare ability to move ( between literary and social criticism without stumbling. He is equally adept at explaining the rise of sun worship in the '20's or at arguing that the travel books of the period deserve attention as works of narrative art. Some of the volumes he likes best are no longer in print, a sad situation that his own book may help remedy. A single passage by Evelyn Waugh in Labels is more than enough to justify all that roaming around that...
Since May, District 65 has shown itself adept at associating the union with issues at the Med School, and has put the University in an awkward position as a result...
...packs of cigarettes. Because draftees are short of cash, the Soviet military has a theft problem. Auto parts, grease, rope, felt boots, heavy overcoats and other items in short supply for civilians are smuggled off base to nearby villages and sold or bartered for liquor. Soviet soldiers are as adept as their counterparts elsewhere in the world at concocting an alcoholic brew from such unusual sources as after-shave lotion, brake fluid, plane deicer and even shoe polish...