Word: adroitness
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...impression of an entire convention, including chairman, delegates, Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley and the BBC. An old newsreel showed Bess Truman hopelessly trying to christen an airplane-bopping the nose a dozen times until a technician took pity on her and hammered the bottle apart. And in a technically adroit sequence, famous faces were shown orating silently as the sound track played Tony Bennett's rendition of If I Ruled the World. It began with Johnson, moved to Goldwater, then to such notables as Nixon, De Gaulle, Batman and Paar himself...
...conservative as the New York Academy of Medicine or the American Bar Association, questioned Anslinger's policy--in itself a rare event--Anslinger answered by offering to disclose the high percentage of physicians and other public figures who were themselves 'hooked' or who were 'traffickers' in narcotics. By fabricating adroit compounds of fact and fiction, he created an automatic association between narcotics and criminal activity in both the public's and the physician's minds, so that until he retired, research and experimentation were virtually impossible...
...general, the Dunster Political Review has posed some perplexing questions and has taken a good first shot at replying to some of them. Hartz's article, in particular, is laudable for its originality and adroit attempt to answer its hypothetical critics. The review is valuable both as a stimulant for political debate and a source of possible solutions to the contemporary problems of "Presidential Power"; it should, and I hope, will publish next year...
Statistical Barrage. "Baloney" was Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's word for it. In an adroit appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, McNamara dismissed Ford's charges as "completely misleading." He also refuted a New York Times story quoting unidentified sources in Saigon as saying that U.S. air raids had been curtailed because of a lack of bombs and bomb parts...
Lost Initiative. In a narrow sense, Belaúnde's decision was an adroit maneuver to defend the executive branch against the claim of an opposition-controlled Congress that it is the supreme power in the state. In a larger sense, Belaúnde's action showed how vulnerable he has become. For the initiative in pushing the battle against the guerrillas has been seized by his congressional enemies, the middle-roading Apristas, led by Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, 70, and the right-wing followers of former Dictator Manuel...