Word: adroit
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Shaped by less adroit hands, the movie's inevitable love interest might have proved a stumbling block; instead, it gives the story a lift. One of Gwenn's friendly neighbors, U.N. Translator Dorothy McGuire, inadvertently receives and passes some of the queer, thus catches the eye of T-man Burt Lancaster. Eager to prolong his attentions, she reads up on counterfeiting and begins spouting counterfeiter's argot. This maneuver sets up a clever scene in which Lancaster gives her a whispered grilling at a nightclub table while wandering violinists serenade them with romantic mood music. The romance...
...that the raise would win them votes in the next election. Bidault thought that the raise, which would have cost the government some three billion francs ($9,000,000), would lead to other demands, eventually wreck his budget. Some felt that Bidault might have skirted a crisis by more adroit politicking. In any case, he walked right into it, said flatly: "These claims are often justified, but it is the government's duty to say what is possible and what is not possible." He pointed to France's increased economic stability, pleaded: "Defeat of the cabinet would upset...
Raising donations for the land, clearing it and putting up buildings will take adroit managing, but Don Zeno is more worried about safeguarding the ideas on which he has built his Christian experiment. "Here in Nomadelphia," he says, "we are living the true Gospel. We have no debts. It is society that has the debt to care for children who have no homes...
...sense you used the adjective "pert." I have consulted my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and find myself confounded. The early meanings run "open, unconcealed, manifest." A very early (and pleasant) usage is translated as "beautiful." Later, the meaning became "smart, dapper." From there we go on to "sharp, intelligent, adroit and clever." And if this were not enough, to "forward in speech and behavior, saucy, cheeky and malapert." After that the S.O.E.D. proclaims that pert "may be used as a vague expression of disfavor." Comes now, "bold," followed by "esp. in a bad sense" and after that "audacious, lively, bright...
...leaders, the two chief parties and the platforms are the same as in 1946. Led by deaf, adroit President Inönü, the Republicans are campaigning on Turkey's progress in the 27 straight years they have held power since the late great Kemal Ataürk expelled the last Sultan. Led by sober, intense ex-Premier Bayar, an Atatürk protégé ousted by Inönü in the jockeying after Atatürk's death, the Democrats declare that it is high time for a change...