Word: maneuverer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Irish whisky was on the rocks and Irish accents were in the air last week as a Manhattan department store kicked off a merchandising maneuver that had all the government brass and economic implications of a trade treaty. Ireland's Minister for Industry and Commerce John Lynch was on...
Beaten in general elections last June, Peru's worker-peasant APRA Party last week fell back on a familiar maneuver: a 24-hour general strike. The occasion proclaimed by leaders of APRA's 500,000-member Confederation of Labor was "indignation" over the dismissal of 300 workers at...
Belaunde quickly proved that he too could be adept at maneuver. The night before the strike, his government made a fast deal with an influential, Communist-dominated division of APRA's own union, extracting a no-strike pledge in return for settlement of the ceramics factory dispute. The rest...
His speed and grace are not all that set him apart from the rest of the trick skiers in the world. He has placed in his run the very difficult back-to-back 360 degree turns off the wake on both two and one skis. He has perfected another seldom...
During one of the songs in Jennie the actors execute a series of elaborate falls, quickly jumping up again after each maneuver. Unfortunately, the production thuds gracelessly--in the same manner as the dancers--and hardly ever manages to rise above the level of labored tedium.