Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boss of the nation's largest and most vicious Mafia family quickly regained his composure. After he was pushed into a car in handcuffs, impeccably dressed as always (for this occasion, in a double-breasted pinstripe suit with a bright yellow scarf dangling rakishly from around his neck), the "Dapper Don" of tabloid fame grinned at reporters and dismissed his latest arrest with an airy "No problem...
...move done, the grand masters wiped the slate clean and began composing fresh music, speculating on what might follow next. This greatly disturbed the dapper young Yugoslav grand master Ljubomir Ljubojevic. Shaking his head in disapproval, Ljubo strode up to the board, took down all the moves now being assayed and brought the position back not to Move 23 but to Move 22. If Karpov had pushed the pawn in Move 22 instead of first delivering that ridiculous check, the now animated Ljubo insisted, it would have been a triumph. He then gave a long demonstration of the truth...
...bosses that would do credit to the medieval church. At their worst they play their sick whims on the weak, and when the sport grows tiresome, they rat on their friends or slit a few throats. They are gangsters, hit men, wise guys -- good fellas, in the parlance of dapper don John Gotti and wizard filmmaker Martin Scorsese...
...Some are very well dressed [and] dapper," she says of Robinson Hall inhabitants. "There isn't that sort of 1960s sloppiness...
...central Mexico Ruben Zuno Arce is known as Don Ruben, wealthy cattleman, son of a governor, brother-in-law of a Mexican President and an influential provincial political boss. In the U.S. last week the dapper Zuno, 60, added another credential to his resume: convicted felon. A Los Angeles jury found him guilty of racketeering, kidnapping conspiracy, and aiding and abetting the 1985 kidnap-murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique Camarena...