Word: adroitness
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...House. Schacht, the adroit, was acquitted at British insistence. He even turned his experiences to profit, sold more than 300,000 copies of his book, Settlement with Hitler, the biggest German bestseller since Mein Kampf...
...writing exams, and were generally surprised on how interesting the classes were. The instructors threw in parodies, pantomimes, and miniature one act plays which maintained a reasonable level of interest even at 8 a.m. These efforts led one student to remark on his comment sheet that "Mr. Perry's adroit stage manner and delightful witticisms have been a constant...
...Churchillian way, adroit and telling, of getting to the nub of his message, that Britain has a very special value to the U.S. and must not be lumped in U.S. calculations with other nations. Churchill quoted from his famed Fulton (Iron Curtain) speech of 1946: "Let no man underrate the abiding power of the British Commonwealth and Empire . . . If [this power] be added to that of the United States . . . there will be no quivering, precarious balance of power to offer its temptation to ambition or adventure...
...adroit debaters from Oxford last night demonstrated that the British Empire, no matter what its material decline, still breeds accomplished dialecticians, as it swept over a Harvard team and showed that "That the sun has not set on the British Commonwealth...
...Sources of Soviet Conduct." Destined to be the field manual of cold-war diplomacy, the article outlined the "containment" policy which has been the basis of U.S. strategy. "Soviet pressure against the free institutions of the Western world," said Mr. X, "is something that can be contained by the adroit and vigilant application of counter force at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points...