Word: deft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take her rightful place in the succession of Hitchcock Ice Princesses (bland, blonde predecessors: Eva Marie Saint, Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, Madeleine Carroll) if she can learn to register horror more convincingly before the cameras roll again. Veteran Ethel Grififies, as a sensible-shoed bird lover, provides a deft and daft counterpoint to the bird-damning villagers. But the most unforgettable performers in The Birds are the birds. They are utterly, terrifyingly believable as they go about their bloody business of murdering humanity. Pigeons loitering around the exits of theaters where this movie is shown would be wise...
...kinds of incidents that happen to me when I'm groping around for a way to make a point," said Royster. Last week he used his months-old misadventure to make the point that "if some of the economic theories bruited about today are correct." the deft dip did much to help the U.S. economy...
...Pope. The Vatican, wary of what the Communists would do with that in Italy's general election next month, refused, and suggested a general audience with other Vatican visitors. Adzhubei rejected that proposal, but the Vatican's subtle chief of protocol, Msgr. Igino Cardinale, figured out a deft compromise. Since officials of the Balzan Foundation* were scheduled to visit the Pope with the formal announcement that he had won their 1963 Peace Prize, why should not Adzhubei cover the event as a working journalist? Afterward, it was hinted, a private-but quite unofficial-meeting with the Pope might...
...Chancellor, there was now only the Bundestag to be dealt with. Konrad Adenauer, 87, handled the situation with deft ease. The Franco-German treaty "is not a substitute for European integration," he told the assembled legislators. "It is merely one of the essential prerequisites." As a matter of fact, declared der Alte, De Gaulle "promised me that the first subject of joint consultation after the treaty goes into effect will be British entry" into the Common Market. As for the Atlantic alliance, "Europe knows that it cannot defend itself without the support of the United States. I underline again...
Perhaps too high. For Goodwin wanted to go farther, faster. He undercut his boss, Assistant Secretary Robert Woodward, an amiable career official, mainly by deft use of telephone calls to the White House. But he soon found that other New Frontiersmen had studied their guerrilla manuals. Woodward's successor, Edwin Martin, demanded and got a clear line of authority from the White House and Secretary of State Dean Rusk. With that, Martin began bypassing Goodwin on key decisions...