Word: adroit
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...made ruble millionaires out of his authors. A writer who had been critical, however, or one who merely failed to pay homage to the dictator, was. denied print, frequently banished to prison camp, sometimes executed. In walking the intellectual tightrope between these extremes, no Soviet writer has been more adroit than Ilya Ehrenburg...
...left Washington, Mendès had proved again that he is an adroit political salesman. Just as obscure as ever was the nature of his product-and whether...
Actually, the film's sentimentality is not too much above the television "Life With ..." level, but it is done with such adroit good taste as to be never offensive or obvious. Mingled with the edifying tale of an artisan's development into a junior robber-baron is enough humor to make Hobson's Choice one of the year's better comedies...
...adroit maneuvering, Evatt managed to postpone the showdown until this week. But whether the vote went for or against Dr. Evatt, the chief loser would be the Labor Party as a whole. Said a well-pleased Cabinet minister of the Liberal government: "We've never been so well in the saddle in 30 years...
...time he set up two-man meetings between French officials and Arab representatives of the Neo-Destour (or Tunisian Nationalist) Party. His most useful collaborator was the Arab's No. 1 nationalist, the ascetic-looking, white-haired Habib Bourguiba, 51, exiled leader of the Neo-Destour. In an adroit move Mendès transferred Bourguiba from lonely sequestration on an island off the Brittany coast to a villa 125 miles from Paris...