Word: deft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hands at following the vagaries of the party line, Mikhalkov and El-Registan had little trouble in composing a deft change in the banned stanza about Stalin. The new last lines...
...bicameral parliament. After abolishing the National Movement, Suárez moved to legalize the Communist Party, convinced that the Communists were more of a threat outside the system than in it?and aware that there would be protests in Western Europe if they were barred from political participation. In a deft stroke of timing, he chose Easter weekend, when most of Spain was on holiday, to act. So stunning was the news that the Radio Nacional announcer sputtered through the first bulletin in disbelief...
...Naturally, they get tripped up a lot, but they get used to it and go bouncing off to school (as Ana does) without moral qualms or regrets. It is this ability to be both right and wrong about even such matters as death that Saura has caught in this deft and strangely touching film...
...divisions between house slaves and field slaves, then peremptorily concludes that the reason why blacks rarely succeed in business is that "they don't quite like each other." In a later chapter, he notes that blacks do make skilled surgeons, perhaps, he adds, "because they have especially deft and agile hands...
Satisfied with his deft work, he turned over the job of closing up the patient to other members of his team-doctors who were preparing to become chief surgeons themselves. Mamiya had spent two hours at the table...