Word: adeptly
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Occasionally a headman comes along who is adept at manipulating these conflicting forces. The trick is to utilize the threat of external power, which cannot really be mobilized by a humble village headman, to bring about his own ends within the longhouse. By failing to perform one of his trivial administrative functions, such as signing an application for a national registration card without which a man cannot get a job in a lumber camp, he can harass his opponents. Over matters of importance such as a land dispute, he may hold the entire house to ransom, if he is careful...
Couple that with the fact that the Crimson roundballers were equally adept at losing to horrible teams and good teams, and Harvard's recent season comes into focus as one of the worst in the last few decades...
...Carter aides are young and aggressive, and they relish the tension and excitement that builds with early success. As they demonstrated in New Hampshire last week, they are adept at blending the old and new in American politics. They drew heavily on the techniques first used there by Eugene McCarthy in 1968 and sharpened by George McGovern...
...Larry, Lenny Baker personifies the flaws of the film. Leading a seductive tango or impressing a film producer with his wit, Larry is as adept as any young actor could hope to be. And he is even better at impersonation. Waiting on an open-air subway platform in the middle of the night, he comically plays Brando, Edward G. Robinson, his mother, and himself accepting an Oscar to rounds of imaginary applause. But Baker can't play without posing--his mouth freezes into the armored look of detachment...
...tried screenwriting and proved adept at that as well. A suave addition to Hollywood society, he was briefly engaged to Actress Joanne Woodward; she and Husband Paul Newman are now among his closest friends. His backstage knowledge was only exceeded by his familiarity with backstairs politics. The Best Man, his well-made melodrama about infighting at a political nominating convention, opened on Broadway in 1960 and ran for 520 performances...