Word: adroit
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...throughout is her soda-fountain boss, Robert Young, with whom she finally clinches in a motel bedroom. The dialogue of this scene is laundered white for all possible audiences. But Lana, in a costume change from her conventional sweater, still manages to undo all attempts at censorship by her adroit management of an old-fashioned camisole...
...deputy who edits La Vanguardia goes laughing away from Chamber sessions to a small dark office in Socialist Party headquarters, swivels before a chaotic desk, attends to the business of paper and party, talks to his friends, licks his pencil and turns out opposition editorials so ironic, incisive and adroit that even his enemies read them. Critica, nearest in spirit to good American newspapers, is a hard-hitting sheet with several editions; in its city room there is more noise and less paciencia than in most. La Prensa, which has 16 editorial writers and not one ad salesman, does...
...second half, guarding more closely and losing the ball far less often than in other recent encounters, the Varsity pierced Yale's 1-3-1 zone defense with comparative ease. Frank Bixler was stationed near the left hand corner, and the adroit Sophomore dunked five one-handers in the period to total 14 points, highest Crimson total...
Through three volumes totaling 2,230 pages Lanny has played Master of Ceremonies for a mammoth floorshow version of 20th-century history, and in the fourth he is still one of the most adroit and likable quick-change artists in the profession. He can beard Basil Zaharoff with tips from The Beyond, josh Hermann Goring, rip off a bit of Beethoven for "Adi" Schicklgruber, rescue a beautiful Social Democrat from "Naziland" and an intrepid young Briton from the Spanish Fascists. He can carom all over "this old continent" (Europe) in his high-powered roadster, keeping dates with the major crises...
...Said the London Observer last week: "To score tactical and temporary victories by adroit maneuver can always be described as 'realism.' But these little gains may prove disastrous in the long run. . . . The 'temporary' arrangement with Admiral Darlan could be justified as a clever one, but . . . intelligence without integrity will fail in the end, and the people know it far better than do some of our politicians...