Word: fluent
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...After talking fluent German with a wounded German prisoner in a base hospital in France, George V said, "Poor chap. His lot is doubly hard. He can't talk with any of the men around him." It was, however, a specific German atroc-ity-the first daylight bombing of London -which caused His Majesty to declare all German titles held by his family and subjects relinquished, to proclaim on July 25, 1916: "We, having taken into consideration the name and title of our Royal House and Family,* have determined that henceforth our House and Family shall be styled...
...dream in life was to break out of poverty." What he often fails to mention in his Horatio Alger-style tale is that as a teenager he spent almost four years in jail for robbery and assault, though the charges were later reversed. Genial but wooden tongued and more fluent in Russian than in Ukrainian, Yanukovych is reminiscent of a Soviet-era party boss, an image aided by his 6-ft.- 6-in., 240-lb. frame. That style goes down well in his conservative home base in the Donbass, Ukraine's industrial powerhouse, where the Russian-leaning (and -speaking) population...
...such Broadway musicals as Sweet Charity and City of Angels; of heart failure; in New York City. His jazzy songs, from Hey, Look Me Over to Big Spender, became hits for singers like Tony Bennett and Peggy Lee and epitomized Broadway songwriting at its most likably brash. A fluent pianist, he performed a cabaret act in New York City as recently as last month...
...main dream in life was to break out of poverty." What he often fails to mention in his Horatio Alger?style tale is that he spent almost four years in jail as a teenager for robbery and assault, though the charges were later reversed. Genial but wooden tongued, more fluent in Russian than Ukrainian, Yanukovych is reminiscent of a Soviet-era party boss, an image aided by his almost 2 m, 109-kg frame. That style goes down well in his conservative home base in the Donbass, Ukraine's industrial powerhouse, where the Russian-leaning (and -speaking) population tends...
...words and subtle gestures. It's also attuned to the language, and body language, of evasion - the way people lie to spare feelings, mostly their own. Some much is said, and left unsaid, by evasive glances. Women can read these looks like books; men are usually a little less fluent in that language...