Word: adroitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...type out a complete mystery in 38 days of writing. Stout's agoraphobic master sleuth, who made his first appearance in Fer-de-Lance (1934), was an intuitive armchair detective in the manner of Sherlock Holmes. Wolfean devotees have contended that their hero's infinite array of adroit solutions stemmed from his creator's multifaceted life. A youthful mathematical prodigy, Stout was a prolific freelancer, an ardent champion of political causes and a jack-of-most-trades who at various times trained jumping pigs and sold cigars. Nero Wolfe's last case, A Family Affair (TIME...
...understand Bangladesh's government. The point of the government, as has been the point of government in South Asia for at least a thousand years, is to enrich government officials and strengthen the power of the upper castes over the lower, and at this the government is remarkably adroit, efficient, and swift. There are very few construction projects, for example, from which officials fail to achieve their target of bribes, very few internal disturbances from which the peasants gain anything but lip sympathy from the government, very few land reform programs which leave large landowners or bureaucrats (often they...
...Rollers' real expertise seems to lie in their ability to titillate the hearts and minds of their young audiences. One of their most adroit teases is to encourage one or two girls to come up to the stage for a kiss, usually from Les, the lead singer...
Like Ford and Brezhnev, Europe's Big Four representatives had an impressive supporting cast. Although France was a defeated power, it was ably served by its adroit, persuasive Foreign Minister, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord-whom Napoleon had once called "a piece of dung in a silk stocking," presumably because of his tendency to shift allegiances. Also present were some 32 minor German princes, representatives of the Pope, the Sultan of Turkey and numerous special interest groups (including the Jews of Frankfurt). They were accompanied by an extravagant collection of wives, mistresses and servants, and so much...
...guide the people in making Saigon an advanced city, civilized, strong and happy." That, last week, was the extravagant promise of Giai Phong (Liberation), the only newspaper permitted to publish in Saigon as the new Communist military administration continued to consolidate its rule. The new leaders were using an adroit combination of authoritarianism and restraint that-thus far-has marked the most velvety transition of power ever effected by a Communist government...