Word: adroitness
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Dinner is also interesting as a serious attempt at analysis of Franklin Roosevelt's strengths and weaknesses of character: was he "a kind heart, an adroit brain and a shower of sparks? Or [was] he these things harnessed to a firm and valuable purpose?" After digesting his dinner at the White House Louis Adamic was far from sure about the firm and valuable purpose. Today, badly baffled, he concludes: "We [had] no better man. . . . We'd not have tolerated a better...
...Administration's strategist, Majority Leader Alben Barkley, quickly sensed the sentiment. In four days of adroit maneuvering, he got approval (by the Senate Banking Committee) of a new OPA formula. Out the window went a compromise Bob Taft thought he had arranged. This week the Senate's battle of price control started all over again. U.S. citizens watched it anxiously. There was a strong move to take all controls off meat, poultry and dairy products. Only on rent controls did nearly everyone seem agreed, whatever bill Congress passed, it was all but certain that there would be ceilings...
...figures are often loved. (Around the News only ex-Theater Critic Burns Mantle, 72, dared call him "Joe.") It was hard to be neutral about Joe Patterson's News. It was widely hated (even by people who could not stop reading it) for its blind prejudices, and the adroit, insidious, vindictive way it advocated them...
Owen Torrey, also a polo vaulter, has been performing pretty much in Harwood's shadow all spring. Several times he has grabbed second-he was tied for second in the Heptagonals-but he has never been able to top his adroit team-mate...
...inherent possibilities in such an undertaking, but is still wise enough to retain the somewhat dispassionate view of an observer. He must realize that, in spite of the unusually wide variety of groups backing this particular convention, and the specific nature of the topics under investigation, clever management and adroit manipulation can all too easily capture the affair for one faction or another. It is in a hopeful if not glowing attitude that the College must accept the Conference. But caution, which is vital, need not develop into a spirit of cynicism and fear that would prevent acceptance...