Word: adroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fisher has worked as hard as Temple for cooperation among the Christian churches. A better administrator, he may prove more effective than his predecessor in this respect. Another asset is his adroit ness and tact, which he used effectively in piloting through the Church Assembly a complicated measure to reorganize par ish boundaries. And he is no stuffed shirt. He once organized a football team, called "Lambeth United," played on it with his six sons. Another time he appeared in Chester town square, bishop's gaiters & all, grinding a hand organ to help raise money for the Royal Infirmary...
...enemy is capable of altering his tactics quickly. The enemy understands machinery and is adroit at handling it. Speed characterizes his construction of airfields, motor roads and communication networks...
...save embarrassment, the G.O.P. strategy called for alternate introductions by the candidates. Both jockeyed for official G.O.P. favor. But the significance of this adroit move, obviously sanctioned by the high command, was not lost on North Dakotans. It was plain that Tom Dewey had ordered no more than the merest routine courtesy to Isolationist Nye, and had given Independent Lynn Stambaugh a pat on the back. This was also typical Dewey caution...
...what with adroit use of the flashback technique--an extremely rare thing these days--the movie scrambles to its feet just as the referee counts ten. It's a close shave, and the five o'clock shadow's still there...
...system as himself. But to the Army they were no symbols of confidence. And so as a new Chief of the Army General Staff, the Führer chose a different sort of man. He was neither an all-out Nazi nor an old-line Prussian officer, but an adroit military technician, with links to both camps. He was Colonel General Heinz Guderian (rhymes with agrarian), the Wehrmacht's No. 1 tank general, the kind of officer (Hitler hoped) who would not break, no matter how sure was defeat, how dismal the amateur attempts of the Party high command...