Word: cleverisms
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...within focal reach of his Leica. In 1935 Bettmann fled Nazi Germany for the U.S. with $5 and his father's best suit. He also took with him two steamer trunks of exposed 35-mm film. This trove grew into what Bettmann, a courtly scholar as well as a clever businessman, proudly merchandised as a "complete history of civilization...
...explain a tiny energy imbalance in certain nuclear reactions, but it would also be so ethereal that the average neutrino could zip through a trillion-mile-thick chunk of lead without hitting a single atom. Since the particles would presumably sail undetected through any measuring device, Pauli lamented, his clever idea could never be proved correct...
...majority of entries are the clever coinages of military folk, who seem over the ages to have had little more to do than embroider their vocabulary with ever newer inventions. Ask any soldier to count the entries, and he will say there are three hundred and sixty-f---ing-five of them. Were it not for our brave fighting men, this book would be a booklet...
...sort of offbeat celebrities TV has managed to overexpose thoroughly, like RuPaul and Roger Clinton. Miller's real twist on the late-night formula is to employ a trio of sketch players who perform three or four skits each night. So far, the material has been topical and clever: one sharp sketch featured a Woody Allen impersonator directing a teenage girl in a Calvin Klein...
Sometimes, Powell "comes out and plays violin for us," says Currier House Committee President Zachary T. Buchwald '96. "That's pretty clever.... I can't imagine that taking place not having grown up in an environment of this nature...