Word: skillful
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...skill needed for this type of job is often unrecognized, and every checker has a different technique. The checker at Adams House stares straight down at the machine, holds out her hand, and waits for students to pass her their card. Interestingly enough, she never lets one student by without being swiped, and although her head is down, she is aware of everything around...
...draws teams from the New England, Atlantic Coast, Mid-Atlantic and Southern districts, where the nation's top boats generally sail. At Nationals, weaker districts join in, lowering the overall skill level...
...Often ebullient, even jocular, Aziz answered questions with both patient frankness and that skill of diverting discussion to favorable ground that is essential for diplomats who represent dictators...
...help protect Cuba against such actions. As Defense Secretary Robert McNamara stated at a conference in 1989, "If I had been a Cuban leader, I think I might have expected a U.S. invasion." Kennedy is often praised for his handling of the crisis. But less discussed is the skill with which he hid the U.S. insurgency campaign against Cuba. DEREK MULLINGS Dubai, United Arab Emirates...
There are dumb movies, and then there are dumb movies. Making slapstick, the lowest form of humor, successful requires enormous skill and talent. Rowan Atkinson's character, Mr. Bean, whose inspired idiocy traces a direct descent from Charlie Chaplin, infuses new intelligence into unintelligent comedy. It's really too bad that such a well-wrought dumb character finds himself in such a stock dumb movie...