Word: adroitness
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Bent Hinze rounded out the Crimson scoring after an adroit dribbling display, five minutes before the final gun. That gave the Harvard front line perfect scoring balance with each member netting a tally...
...forward in the National Hockey League for the past four years, Esposito has skated in the shadow of his superstar teammate, Defenseman Bobby Orr (who missed the series because of an injured knee). Where would Espo be, many fans wondered, without Orr? In Moscow, with a superlative display of adroit, aggressive hockey, he supplied the answer by leading Team Canada to victory...
...Hoover was a vital part of anti-communist hysteria from the beginning. For nearly half a century he warned Congress and the public about communists hiding under their beds. They shuddered, and he combined their fear with adroit use of influence and blackmail and built his FBI into an empire, an uncontrollable superagency which is already far down the road to being a national political police force...
...poacher has bragged that he killed 114 alligators in a single night, and he was equally adroit in eluding pursuers. After throwing the hides out of his pickup truck as a posse closed in, he dove into a Louisiana bayou, swam across the border to Texas and holed up there for six months before being captured. Another, who is now serving a long jail sentence, used to zip across the swamps in a shallow boat that could reach speeds of 85 m.p.h...
Alas, no. Lord Byron is infused with Thomson's musical craftsmanship-adroit trios and sextets, transparent orchestral writing-but not the expressive spark to illuminate the drama. An exception is the nostalgic suite of dances for the third-act ballet (choreographed by Alvin Ailey) that depicts Byron's travels, amours and death in Europe. The rest is a feeble reminder of a once-insinuating talent...