Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collegiate representatives in this summer's Olympics. The team blocking the path of Kansas' N.C.A.A. winners was, fittingly enough, Philadelphia's La Salle, winner of the recent National Invitation Tournament. In contrast to Kansas' one-man gang, La Salle is a five-man team of deft ball handlers and sharpshooters, though none of them matches Lovellette's scoring potential...
...maid service depends on each man. If neatness is your weakness, rest assured that there will be a place for everything and everything will remain there. If you like to live in a state of cluttered order, the deft mop handlers can whisk every speck of dust away and never disturb one half-full whiskey bottle...
...first thing they should look for is a 6 ft. 4 in. skyscraper of a man who wears loud clothes and has a surprisingly unlined face for his 57 years. If all Britons in the Middle East were as able, deft and unruffled as Bahrein's Financial Consultant Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Britain would be winning, not losing, popularity contests in the Arab world. Belgrave, an officer in the British Camel Corps in the Sudan in World War I, answered a blind personal ad in the London Times in 1925. The job was to advise a sheik in Bahrein. Belgrave...
...they found him a likable, good-natured companion in horseplay. A favorite sport was to get the big ex-tackle down on all fours in signals position and try to push him over. One day the great director, John Ford, joined the game. Duke took his stance. With a deft kick Ford knocked his hands from under him, and the property man's face hit the floor with a smack. It was very funny. Everybody laughed. Duke got up, his face expressionless. "Let's try that once again," he said. Ford nodded. This time Duke charged forward, sent...
...entirely possible that Louis Kronenberger, critic, literary historian and theater editor of TIME, has tucked an urbane moral or two into this story of compulsive acquisitiveness. But the moral never bulges the story out of shape. In an age of lugubrious fiction, Author Kronenberger has produced a deft and witty little novel in the best tradition of high farce...