Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hombre that clogs up Dooley's craw so tight he can hardly spit: the professional gambler. When Bret Maverick (James Garner) rides into town in search of buried gold, Deputy Diefendorfer has no trouble spotting him for the cardsharp he really is. "He's wearing a clean white shirt and a black necktie," explains Diefendorfer, "and he's winning, Muster Dooley." Outraged, Marshal Dooley heaves Maverick out of town, has to repeat the performances twice more when Maverick keeps sneaking back. "We're sure getting some strange breeds in Ellwood lately," muses the marshal. "Remember that...
...sound they produced was clean, relaxed, admirably unblurred. The music for the most part was richly ornamented, to take full advantage of the presence of 20 fingers on 88 keys. Demus and Badura-Skoda executed filigreed turns of Mozart, trickily syncopated rhythms of Hindemith, florid, zestful melodies of Schubert with a fine fluency and flair. Each throttled his individual sound, avoiding the pounding effect that often afflicts duo pianists playing on separate instruments...
Judging by the recent political activity, one could easily conclude that Harvard undergraduates are incapable of running a clean, graceful election or conducting any sort of dispute in an atmosphere of fair-minded reasonability...
...last week Yemanjá scored a clean victory. When Archbishop Camara held an open-air Mass on the beach New Year's Eve to compete with the spiritists, only 600 people showed...
...When I took over in 1951,'' he recalls, "I told lots of people immediately that this company was not going to be a sinecure for mediocrity. The old G.E. had a reputation as a good and complacent place to work if you kept your nose clean. I wanted to get rid of that idea and create more risk and opportunity." Says G.E. Director and Wall Street Broker Sidney Weinberg: "If you did something wrong, Cordiner would send for you and tell you you were through. That's all there would...