Word: adroitly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...color plates, presents a romantic portrait of its hero with most emphasis on his picturesque frontier experiences, his difficulties in England and France, little emphasis on his harsh discouragements. Its high point deals with Audubon's awakening ambitions in the South. The dramatic bird life of Louisiana, where adroit and playful mockingbirds chase dogs and torment cats, while sparrows look on in excitement', enchanted Audubon. There he conceived his great and precious folios of the Birds of America that are now collectors' rarities valued at $10,000. He painted woodpeckers, flycatchers, studied the chuck-will...
...fire on the ships with powerful Lisbon fortress batteries, disabled and towed them ashore where it will not be difficult to patch them up. Oliveira Salazar soldiers marched the mutinous sailors to jail whence they expected to be sent to the Portuguese penal colony in the tropics. In an adroit proclamation the Portuguese Government intimated that it had known beforehand of the coming mutiny and, instead of nipping it, had deliberately permitted the sailors to commit a crime and receive a punishment which Dictator Oliveira Salazar trusted last week will impress other Portuguese sympathetic with proletarian Madrid. In Lisbon cafes...
Jefferson in Power is thus typical of Ambassador Bowers' five historical volumes. At his best in analyzing the maneuvers of factional leaders, fights over patronage, the ceaseless improvising of adroit politicians, he gives only limited and conventional portraits of the personalities involved. His Jefferson, Hamilton, Marshall, John Randolph, Madison, Gallatin, Monroe, Pickering, remain remote historic figures. Only Aaron Burr, about whom Author Bowers writes with a mixture of scorn and awed surprise, emerges as a bold, treacherous, ambitious, but clearly visualized individual...
Every so often TIME reaches great journalistic heights in articles on exceedingly complex subjects that are made crystal-clear under TIME'S adroit pen. The article "Goal Behind Steel" (TIME, July 20) was one such...
...zealous activities from the newsreels, wire services and the Eastern press, which gave it publicity comparable to that which the Oxford Groups have received in Europe. Welcomed because an Oxford Group tenet is to spread the message of "God-control" as widely as possible, the publicity emphasized the adroit staging of the Assembly, the newsworthiness of the names identified with it, the singular nature of the testimony by which Oxford Group ideas were proffered to those who cared to listen...