Word: adeptly
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...Ruppel, 41, is a stocky, 6-ft. hellraiser, raised in Brooklyn and adept at hurling four-letter words out of either side of his mouth. He went ashore with the Marines at Kwajalein, has since been relieved from active duty. His three-word journalistic credo is: "Lots of sock." He took over as $40,000-a-year executive editor two months ago. At first the rumbles were confined to the Herald-American building, where he was engaged in shaking up his staff. Then he got out on the street, in trick headlines. Sample Ruppel banner when the Allies retook...
...Colby and was cast in Mary of Scotland. In the finished film, she scarcely appeared. After that she scarcely appeared in pictures like The Bride Walks Out, Wings of Mercy, Walking on Air, some Ginger Rogers films, a smattering of Bs. Anita had too many inhibitions to be adept at playing anyone except herself. After two and a half years of it she gave up, returned to New York -and became, for a time, a Park Avenue Kitty Foyle...
...razor is the best tool to use for stealing paintings. It is fast, noiseless, and may also be used as a weapon if necessary. Swiftly, silently, one December evening, an adept Buenos Aires thief went to work in the Argentine National Museum of Fine Arts. He chose a small (20 by 33 in.), valuable ($40,000) painting, Berge de Lavacourt by French Impressionism's founder, Claude Monet. There was only one guard on duty in the gallery, and he was twice called to the telephone that evening...
...play challenges every ounce of the Lunts' skill, but they manage some wonderfully adept pantomime and somehow turn a good many feeble gags into full-blooded laughs. Headlining its review "The Infallible Lunts," the Daily Telegraph & Morning Post was sure that, thanks to their acting, the play would run "as long as they like...
...inner fortress. The enemy had moved to within 120 miles of Kweiyang, an air base city near the eastern end of the Burma Road. Nanning, last forward American air base in China, was captured. Heading the advance was wily, bespectacled General Yasuji Okamura (whom Wedemeyer called a "wise and adept mountain fighter...