Word: dapper
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...person that Scotland Yard would very much like to talk to about the robbery is Stephen Patrick Raymond, 30, a dapper, self-confident redhead who had worked for several months as a shipping clerk, filling in customs and transit forms, at Purolator's London office-until he failed to show up after the weekend of the theft...
...love affairs, all my jobs, just to prove that my mother was right. It's all bullshit and I'm not going to do it any more." One of the men says he can't get over the feeling that est is a gigantic fraud. A dapper fellow with a mustache says coolly that nothing in the proceedings has touched...
...about troubling "items" in our lives, such as anger and loneliness. Everyone lies on the floor, eyes closed. Ron tells the crowd to concentrate on different parts of the body, shouts "Let go, let it all out!" For the first time, some of the men lose control, including the dapper Mr. Cool, now convulsed and flailing his limbs. The crescendo comes when Ron directs attention to our diaphragms. Deafening whoops of pain, and some of pleasure. "We became a goddam mob," one disillusioned estie says afterward...
...headed the party from 1956 to 1967. His stewardship will be brief: plagued by increasing deafness, he is willing to serve only until midsummer, when a new Liberal leader will be selected in a process that may be bitter and divisive and could further postpone the new dawn that dapper Jeremy Thorpe once promised to bring the Liberals...
...said, had been timed to approximate the anniversary of the May 8, 1945 surrender of Hitler's forces in Europe because Zenteno had supported Bolivia's refusal to extradite Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief of Lyon, on France's request. Furthermore, the caller added, the dapper ambassador was marked for death because in 1967, as a Bolivian colonel, he had supervised the CIA-trained forces that tracked down and killed Fidel Castro's roving revolutionary Che Guevara, a martyr in many versions of leftist scripture. The gun used in the assassination, said the spokesman...