Word: adroit
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When it comes to offensive striking power, Ernie is right. He is averaging a solid 17 points per game with the Braves, while feeding adroit passes to his teammates; with 8 assists per game, he is leading the league. With the help of Bob McAdoo and Jim McMillian, the Braves this season are winning almost as many as they are losing...
Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux is a sophisticated gentleman, quite unlike the character with the big feet and the penguin walk, but for the most part his face is as alive, his movement as adroit, his spirit every bit as poignant as that of the wonderful little tramp. Yet there is a savage distinction: Verdoux is a multiple bigamist and mass murderer. He marries rich women, murders them, quickly counts his money, expertly disposes of the bodies...
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...