Word: adroit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, no opposition critic has given popular President Ramon Magsaysay so much trouble as one outspoken member of his own Nacionalista Party. Wealthy old (65) Senator Claro Recto is an adroit corporation lawyer and the party's most vociferous voice in the Senate. Back in 1953, when the party badly needed a popular presidential candidate, Senator Recto had a major voice in the decision to reach into the Liberal Party and tap able young Ramon Magsaysay, then busy hunting down the Communist Huks as Defense Minister in the Quirino government. Ever since, Senator Recto has acted like...
...waiting too long (five minutes) for U Nu. "Tell them we'll see them some other time," politely said U Nu, and walked out. Gasped a State Department man, "If it had happened here, everyone in protocol would have been fired by now." Secretary Benson made an adroit recovery, speeding over to Blair House to apologize to U Nu, taking Mrs. Benson along. She was glad the incident happened, allowed Mrs. Benson diplomatically, "otherwise I would not have had the chance to meet the Prime Minister...
...asked for it." The governor is not content with merely asking politely; he seeks what he wants with a whirling, all-out showmanship that horrifies his more conservative colleagues, depresses Democrats, and wins California votes in ever-increasing numbers. Politically, Goodie belongs to an old breed: he is an adroit practitioner of the crushing handshake, the baby kiss, the bellowed platitude, the corny joke, the remembered name. He likes nothing better than an oldfashioned, razzle-dazzle political campaign, and he campaigns every year all year round. His harried staffers estimate that when he is in good form, the governor makes...
...Adroit, fast-moving Mario Scelba took the U.S. in his stride. During his state visit to Washington he had an hour-long conference with President Eisenhower, followed by a White House luncheon. He visited Capitol Hill, where he got a standing ovation from the House and Senate, conferred with Vice President Richard Nixon and four Cabinet-rank officials, including Secretary of State John Foster Dulles...
With a clumsiness to bring guffaws from a third-rate union negotiator, the usually adroit Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov pared down his old Dumbarton Oaks request for U.N. membership for all 16 Soviet republics. "[Russia] would be satisfied," said he, "with the admission of three, or at least two." Good-naturedly, the Westerners agreed to help add two Red birds, Byelorussia and the Ukraine, to the nest. On the very evening that the eagles had their frank talk about the small birds, even before the blueprint for the U.N. had been agreed upon, disillusion began...