Word: adeptly
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...first, we shun such fawning. We tell our family and friends that we go to school in Boston and avoid dropping the H-bomb that might make lesser folk uncomfortable. In polite conversation, we grow adept at unconsciously substituting "major" for "concentration," "resident advisor" for "proctor" and "TA" for "TF." We pretend we go to a school like all other schools, only with a slightly higher average GPA and a slightly worse football team...
Veteran officers, for example, often become adept at spotting stolen cars on a busy highway...
...excellent fund raiser, Northup has also proven herself an adept campaigner after five consecutive terms in the Kentucky House. She supports the balanced-budget amendment and, as a mother of six, is also in favor of broad-based tax cuts, including a $500-per-child tax credit. She also favors giving states control over welfare and believes the same approach should be tried with crime fighting...
Harrison, a fifth-generation Texan, gave Martin Frost a run for his money in 1994 and is waging a similar attack this time: blasting Frost for supporting higher taxes and more government regulation and for his ties to labor unions. Though he is an adept fund raiser, Harrison is running against the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, who has spent his entire term raising money as part...
Hoping to dodge his devils, Devlin pursues a second skill. He is a Tae Kwon Do adept, and though he is white, middle aged and middle class, he opens a gym to teach this Korean martial art in Baltimore's black ghetto. This is both inspiration and folly, redoubled because he encourages his 17-year-old daughter, who also knows Tae Kwon Do, to help out. The neighborhood's young black drug dealers are pragmatists, eager to learn the fighting discipline for self-protection when they are sent to prison. Devlin, an idealist trying shakily not to unravel, commits...