Word: adroitness
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...usual way-with a sudden splurge of innuendos and charges of dark intrigues and double-dealing. Magsaysay's chief rival is Senator Claro Recto, a member of his own party and one of the men who first induced Magsaysay to run for President in 1952. An adroit lawyer but a disappointed politician, Recto accused Magsaysay of signing a secret document in 1952 promising to serve only one term if elected President...
...role of a warmhearted answering-service operator, she can quaver like a beldam or give a rumbling impersonation of Santa Claus. But what is perhaps more important, she can look engagingly blank or beguilingly large-eyed, can be daft, sly, small-girl, strong-minded, touching. She is an adroit performer and an inimitable personality...
...stars' part, for virtuoso acting. Actor Portman changes as brilliantly from an enraged but powerless bull to a neatly clipped but bleating, lamb as does Actress Leighton from a hard, sick, glossy siren to a sick, quivering dowd. And, as staged by Peter Glenville, both productions are consistently adroit theater, full of gaudy character acting and authoritative ensemble playing...
...means to symbolize. Thus it can be used in conjunction with p (flag) to mean nation, iPj , or in conjunction with d (the smallest element of a whole) to mean citizen, J «p I . Picto's vocabulary is kept as small as it is by the adroit combination of ideas. Thus, a garage is rendered in Picto as a house for autos, a restaurant as a house for eating, a movie theater as a house for film. Thus equipped, Picto can indulge in compound and complex sentences: 0- -» O X | 2 Q A. ~ O (During the bloody...
...Something extraordinarily promising has happened to the theater in Canada," wrote Critic Walter Kerr in New York's Herald Tribune. What particularly excited the admiration of Critic Kerr and the audiences was the adroit use of both French and English-speaking actors in this year's Shakespearean Festival at Stratford, Ont. Players drawn from bilingual Canada's two major language groups, acting in the plays of Shakespeare and Molière, are onstage together for the first time in a unique theatrical bill that reflects the nation's dual cultural origins...