quick-handed

Quick and dextrous.

Ironically, the successful conviction on the part of Columbia's graduate students to preserve for posterity what I believe is perhaps the most thorough-going and most painlessly digested summary of economic-thought developments has never had Professor Mitchell's backing, and before his death Mitchell disclaimed any responsibility for errors that might have slipped into the quick-handed note taker's record since Mitchell had not even read what must have become the treasured possession of many a mature intellect among the large number of his students from both this country and abroad.

Particularly bright people did not turn out to be especially quick-handed, and particularly quick-handed people did not turn out to be especially bright.

Done quickly and efficiently.

I should like first to thank Cristina Gutierrez, of my office staff, for her tireless and quick-handed work transcribing the hundreds of tape-cassettes on which the various drafts of the present work have been dictated.

Of the quick-handed sketches, the young furniture designer enthuses, "I find it's so important to keep jotting down ideas, even if they're the worst ideas in the world.

Quickly and efficiently.

They drain the stalk out with their arms, quick-handed, and cleanse it with a stream of mead and filters.

As the two men, quick-handed, laid Bernard on a stretcher, Tess asked: 'Is he dead?'