Word: adeptly
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...emerged a bronzed and bare-chested figure somewhat larger than life: the sabra (native-born Israeli), who took that name from the fruit of the cactus that thrives in his land, a handsome, romantic idealist who furrowed his fields rather than his brow and was equally adept at digging wells for his country and graves for its enemies...
...only time Haitink acts the part of a confident conductor is when he steps on the podium. Then he is all that might be expected of somebody who is regarded as one of the top younger figures in the field-firm, precise, sensitive, adept at molding the rich chiaroscuro of the Concertgebouw sound without blurring the melodies or jostling the rhythms. Under his baton, the orchestra is not yet burnished to the glow it had under Mengelberg, and in some of the repertory he has not yet overcome a faint tendency toward coolness and restraint. But when he conducts...
...some clever entrepreneur sold "I Go Here in the Winter" buttons to those who could furnish appropriate proof, but there are subtler ways--an abbreviation dropped here, a bit of history recalled there, a nickname spoken ever so casually in the Yard--to make the point, and everyone becomes adept at the game...
Under the Fan. The tactic was evolved to cope with an enemy adept at hiding in his own terrain and reluctant to fight unless the odds appeared overwhelmingly in his favor. In past wars and the earlier days of the Viet Nam conflict, the U.S. conducted patrols for reconnaissance and intelligence purposes only. Engagement with the enemy was to be avoided for the sound reason that a patrol seldom consists of a unit much larger than a 30-man platoon, and often is as small as a squad...
...Trafalgar Square with Folk Singer Joan Baez in a 1965 antiwar demonstration. Last week Worrall, in striped shirt and sweat-stained Levi's, was humming a different tune as he sweated in the dust of Phu Cuong, twelve miles northwest of Saigon, building homes for Vietnamese refugees. An adept at the ancient art of cumshaw and cajolery, Worrall overcomes the perennial shortages of materials by canvassing battlefields in a borrowed "deuce-and-a-half" (2½-ton army truck) and scavenging useful debris like 105-mm. ammo boxes, which he pounds into A-frames for his buildings...