Word: deftly
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Although no terrorist incident occurred, Greek authorities rounded up dozens of Palestinians in Athens for interrogation and deported seven who were carrying false passports. The Greek Foreign Ministry took the unprecedented step of barring all Palestinians from entering the country without special permission. Despite the deft performance, Airport Commander George Papadimitropoulos insisted that there are limits to airport security. Said he: "Can you imagine a Greek family, mother, aunt, grandma, uncles, who came to see off their son, being told they...
What brought the expansion of embryonic-stem-cell research to a congressional vote was not a public groundswell, however, but an uncharacteristically deft inside move by a group of Republican moderates who call themselves the House Tuesday Group. For months, they had been looking for an opportunity to get around the House's rigid procedures and force it to take up the measure, which probably could never have got to the floor through the usual process of committee deliberation. When House Speaker Dennis Hastert needed their votes in what turned out to be a squeaker on the budget last month...
...likened it to a sparse grammar of nouns and verbs and a limited vocabulary that is presented “in such a deft way that it will help you understand any language you wish to understand and any language will fit into...
...likened it to a sparse grammar of nouns and verbs and a limited vocabulary that is presented “in such a deft way that it will help you understand any language you wish to understand and any language will fit into...
...malevolent by the day. Worse, Younger Sister Josie arrives from New York City for a Christmas visit, along with her son Alex and her still smoldering passion for Liz's husband. Naturally, family feuds overshadow all those exotic wallabies, kangaroos and kookaburras. But not before Murdoch turns a few deft landscapes and some surprisingly sympathetic portraits of the men trapped in a female fantasy...