Word: adroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Billy proved as adroit and magnetic off the platform as on it. In Kenya, when Kikuyu women in bright-colored print dresses presented him with a head basket for his wife, he jauntily put it on his own head. When he was challenged by a confident Mohammedan missionary to a "duel" of healing the sick, Graham smiled and said: "The Lord has not given me the power of healing. He has only given me the power of speaking...
Thanks for another adroit job of reporting in your Feb. 1 article, "Bible Disneyland." Do you suppose Messrs. Winecoff, Haley & Co. have considered the profitable possibilities of a Drive-the-Money-Changers-Out-of-the-Temple Gallery or the happy prospect of a Mt. Calvary Merry-Go-Round with the bloody Cross as its axis? Or would these features, perhaps, offend someone's "religious sensibilities...
Personality & Philosophy. An indefatigable, apple-cheeked dynamo (he regularly consumes vitamin pills), Humphrey breathes, eats and lives politics. One of his party's most adroit campaigners, he is the poor folks' avowed
...bounced into a news conference in a Senate Office Building committee room to Declare. In a bub bling mood, he made it plain that he was just about the last of the dyed-in-the-wool liberals, and a poorboy (see box) "spokesman" for the "plain people." Adroit Campaigner Humphrey based his pitch on the claim that Vice President Richard Nixon can be beaten only by a nominee who can "carry the fight, campaign vigorously, unafraid, defend the record of his party, [and who can] start out with the props whirling, full steam ahead . . . and even prepare for some turbulent...