Word: cleanest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown-Harvard matches have in the past been marred by rough and unnecessarily aggressive play, but Saturday's game was one of the cleanest of the season. None of Harvard's players were injured, although Thomas had several narrow escapes...
...best work, an effortless and lovely cloud of confetti about the decline of the sweet, the good and the pure, was called Trout Fishing in America. The main character was Trout Fishing itself-among the cleanest and most refreshing combinations of words in English. Unfortunately, this personification of a peerless gerund suffered a surrealistic metamorphosis that included its becoming a pen point, a legless alcoholic and a dinner companion of Maria Callas. At the end, Trout Fishing wound up in a junkyard as a used stream, for sale by the foot...
Wald's enthusiasm for McGovern is almost contagious: "I think he comes to this candidacy with the cleanest hands of any politican I know," Wald says. "On all the issues I know, George McGovern's been there for a long time....He's a man who has almost singlehandedly fought for better nutrition, food-stamps, labor and welfare rights, a guaranteed minimum income, and of course...
...nations are odious but some are less odious than others, and by this stony, unlovely path, he reaches patriotism. To some of us, this seems the cleanest way to reach it. We believe in the roses and the toads and the arts, and know that salvation, or a scrap of it, is to be found only in them. In the world of politics we see no salvation, we are not to be diddled, but we prefer the less bad to the more bad, and so become patriots, while keeping our brains and hearts intact...
...massage rooms as a further bar to hanky-panky. In addition, he sent agents of the Criminal Investigation Division into the steam bath to keep an eye on what was happening. "1 may not have had the best CID over there," he told amused Senators, "but I had the cleanest...