Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...volts of electricity, the combine, despite its air conditioner, turbo engine and two-way radio, is a functioning monument to 19th century mechanical ingenuity. It is a jumble of rubber belts propelling multisized wheels that turn gears, pull pulleys and rotate augers. The object of all this clever instrumentation is not only the cutting of wheat, which the combine does admirably by snipping it off a few inches from the ground, but the threshing of wheat. As the great machines inch their way across the field, a cloud of chaff blows back behind them. Only the cleanly hulled grain remains...
...present, the Core plan actually calls for students to take only one course in the last group, and three in Literature and the Arts, but this is subject to change. And while thus far no one has devised clever abbreviations for the areas to match the beloved Nat Sci, Soc Sci and Hum, the Faculty is establishing a four-year phasing-in period, which should allow plenty of time for such niceties later...
Cleveland had to decide whether or not to retain the mayor with the face of a clever schoolboy and the bite of a barracuda. The recall election was forced by Kucinich's enemies, who issued their challenge after he had fired popular Police Chief Richard Hongisto. Battling for his job, Kucinich claimed he was being hounded by "the bosses" because he fought for "the people." He won-barely. With fewer than half of the voters going to the polls, the mayor's strongholds among the white working-class ethnics, carried the day by 236 votes...
...movie is being shot in Georgia and California without any animated effects. Beyond the clever scenes and imaginative facial sculpting, its success depends on a proud and well-paid crew of 20 invisible performers who are the real actors. The Muppeteers must crouch uncomfortably below the set's surface with their Muppet-covered arms stretched painfully skyward, as they stare into reverse-image video monitors to see what their arms and fingers are doing. "Think of dancing, which is a physical extension of internal feelings," explains Muppeteer Jerry Nelson, 44. "In a smaller way, pushing creative energy through your...
Esau was the hunger, the simple, direct son. I preferred the imaginative one, the smooth, clever Jacob who sat in my tent watching the rages of Isaac turn first on the son within himself, the pitiful kitten fathered by a lion, careful of its stride, watching slow rage then turn on us like the thunder of winter sleet driving in from the mountains. So it wasn't for Jacob alone I schemed to steal Esau's blessing, laughing, giddy, a tenor different from Abraham's hard laugh...