Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hilly precincts of Chattanooga these days, a lot of get-ahead people are doing combat against the peril of forward tongue carry. They are running through word lists, striving to keep their monosyllables crisp: "What kind of boy is George? Mean. Mean-mean-mean-mean-mean...
Freshman Stephanie Clark was down 2-0 in gamesbefore coming back to tally a 3-2 win overPrinceton's Janie Coleman. Clark used corner shotsand crisp passing shots in beating Coleman...
Some fashion watchers attribute the resurgence to the influence of Italian designers like Giorgio Armani, whose textured black and gray suits are best highlighted by white shirts. "There is nothing more crisp and effective with a dressy suit than a white shirt," says Phil Borntrager, a buyer at upscale Chicago clothier Mark Shale's. Others see white's return as emblematic of a conservative trend in power dressing. "People are looking for a lower profile, and that includes the way they dress," explains Jody Kuss of the haberdashery Barneys New York...
...folks as rich as the Ewings from Dallas. Of the 1,000 or so petroleum companies registered in Canada, 800 hang their Stetsons in Calgary. Block after block of antiseptic-looking office towers have popped out of the ground in the past 15 years, creating the illusion on a crisp February night of a skyline cut meticulously from cardboard...
...rink, Harvard is able to play the game it likes most--a skating game. Skating, for Harvard, does not mean simply going up and down the ice, but putting jet propellers on its skates and soaring. Making passes as crisp as fresh potato chips. Making moves as debonaire as Cassanova...