Word: clean-cut
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...queen. Nonetheless, she won the ) student election at Memorial High School in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and thus seemed to have every right to the title. But school officials didn't see it that way; they denied the 17-year-old her crown and named the runner-up, pert and clean-cut Elizabeth Weld, as winner. Last week Eau Claire District superintendent Lee Hansen exposed a plot by principal Charles Zielin and three assistant principals to burn the original ballots and cover up their scam. Hansen announced disciplinary actions against the four administrators and a teacher who came forward. "In trying...
...gauge. Clever of McCartney to pick that theme. The Beatles, after all, personified the 1960s. Their songs reflected a generation's passage from '50s innocence to '70s disillusionment, from teen love to psychedelic drugs and mysticism. The four clean-cut boys in pudding-basin haircuts who sang of love (yeah, yeah, yeah) became the tortured souls of Let It Be. The other half of the Beatles' famous writing team, John Lennon, is dead, struck down by the gun of a crazed fan in 1980; as a result, Lennon's contributions to the Beatles have taken on mythic proportions...
Nevertheless, says Helen E. Schardt, who hired Turner, "I knew enough to know that these girls would probably be Mormon, a little more clean-cut. Possibly a little more stable than what I had been getting...
What we resembled none of these. Instead, we beheld two clean-cut yuppies in pin-striped suits two introduced themselves as Larry and Steve. They ushered us into the neat, pastel-saturated meeting room and offered us a beverage of our choice. The drinks were on a table set with a tablecloth, doilies and long-stemmed water glasses, the chairs were lined up in neat little rows...
Bean-Bayog has questioned Stromsten'scredibility and knowledge of the case. She hascontradicted Stromsten's description of Lozano asa clean-cut medical student, insteadcharacterizing him as a liar and thief who"harbored homicidal, violent and delusionalthoughts...