Word: adroit
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...Back to Germany after reporting in Washington flew adroit Alexander Kirk, veteran charge d'affaires, to his uncomfortable post in Berlin...
...tune this season has the lilt of last season's Yours for a Song (reminiscent of Johann Strauss's Tales from the Vienna Woods), and much like last year's are the smooth water ballets, the adroit diving acts, the custard-pie antics ashore & afloat. But by using scenes from the San Francisco...
...that came to pass "it will be all over with liberty. It will be all over with France." The 17-vote Premier said he was not too worried about acquiring strong Parliamentary backing. "Unity will come about," promised Paul Reynaud. "We don't want to attain it by adroit maneuvers but by results of our action. We are going to the test with our heads high, not prepared to submit but to master-with the souls of warriors and with the souls of victory...
Conclusion. . . . For a time we grew impatient. . . . The cry was for short cuts. Leaders with adroit capacity for capitalizing such moods of urgency began to say that men could not eat liberty or wear constitutions or be sheltered by bills of rights, that action and immediate results were what really mattered. The pressures of need led us to think, to act, and to vote in forgetfulness of the fact that the hasty actions of political expediency, on the hunt for quick remedies, can wreck a nation if its remedies ignore the inviolable principles that underlie the stability and productive efficiency...
...Modern Art but a director of Creole Petroleum Corp., one of Standard's Venezuelan subsidiaries, Standard Oil last summer sent Artist Bennett to Venezuela. Bennett's commission was to paint whatever struck his fancy. Plenty did, from golf courses to jungle camps. So pleased with his adroit jottings are Sponsors Rockefeller and Standard Oil that his water colors will be sent on a year's tour...