Word: adeptly
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...president of 133-year-old Kenyon College (enrollment 500) at Gambier, Ohio. The son of Episcopal missionaries in China and a Ph.D. (in history) from the University of Wisconsin, Lund took over Alabama in 1952. turned it coeducational, raised salaries and standards, won the reputation as perhaps the most adept college president in the state at persuading the legislature to give him-and the state higher education system as a whole-more money...
Broughton's piece is perhaps the best of recent months. He has succeeded at the dramatic, which is more than most undergraduate technicians do. While his effect is achieved partly by control of language and adept manipulation of detail, the primary reason for success is the invention of a fascinating hero...
...Gumshoe" on his "investigating" trips abroad; Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens, the "nice guy" who had muddled his way into a political web; the shrewd, smooth-talking Senators Ev Dirksen and Karl Mundt; the lantern-jawed Tennessean Ray Jenkins, who as committee counsel peppered away at all comers; and adept, relaxed Boston Lawyer Joe Welch, attorney for the Army...
...bright spots in the game were four double plays in the infield, and the allaround play of Bergantino, who got three hits in all and was customarily adept in the field...
...Army veteran of the New Guinea campaign, Fotouhi set out to convince the Japanese that he had come not only to teach them about the U.S. but to learn as much as he could about Japan. His daughter went to a Japanese school, learned the language, even became adept at sword fighting and playing the koto (harp). In addition to studying the tea ceremony, her mother also took up the koto, and father Fazl learned the shakuhachi (bamboo flute). Last month little Farida gave a recital over the radio, and a few days later the whole family took part...