Word: adroit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though it was not an entirely successful approach-some first-nighters found Ustinov's somber lighting too unvarying, his crowd scenes too busy-Ustinov did manage to balance the bawdy with the foreboding in a psychologically adroit way. Costumes contrasted gaily and innocently with the ominous surroundings. The mood was like nothing so much as a folk festival in which the compassionate, suspicious, sacred, profane and foolish commingled...
...supertanker in the narrow channel that is now negotiated by 100 ships in the Strait of Hormuz each day. The short-range Soviet aim seems to be to keep the U.S. on edge by disrupting the calm of the gulf. But there is a long-range possibility that, by adroit maneuvering through middlemen, Russia could cut off oil supplies to the West...
...force from which Perón could have expected the most trouble-the military-was quiet. The reason was some adroit maneuvering by the canny ex-dictator. Through Cámpora, Perón had forced into retirement nine anti-Peronist generals, including former President Alejandro Lanusse. Then Perón embraced the three new chiefs of the armed forces, receiving from them a pledge not to interfere with his running of the country in return for his pledge to rule within the constitution. The military even agreed to allow Perón to regain his old rank of lieutenant...
...jumbo summit would be possible. The first stage, the convocation of the foreign ministers, may last only a few days. Essentially, it will give each minister a chance to make a speech on general principles and to discuss the proposed agenda for Stage 2. As a result of some adroit maneuvering by the Russians, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko will lead off the ministerial round of speeches. U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers will be one of the last speakers...
...they are an implicit answer to the Nixon Administration's assertion that its actions in the Watergate case have been motivated by "national security." It is an adroit defense, because the phrase is so vague as to defy easy definition and it appeals, after all, to valid national concerns...