Word: finer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sensible." Compared to a simple two-and-a-half hour baseball game, a typical three-day cricket match, hedged about with centuries of tradition, does seem far from sensible. The Englishman can only insist that the game is really perfectly rational (if you ignore one or two of the finer points of the rules, and the entire system of nomenclature...
...lean-flanked as a rookie outfielder, "Mr. Mack" had decided to improve his golf game. With a little coaching, he was already smashing out 175-yard drives, had plenty of time, having closed out a half century as manager of his Philadelphia Athletics (Connie Mack, president) to learn the finer points of the short pitch and the downhill putt...
...vicariously for others, but in our own direct defense...The issue now joined is whether...the next flight of fear-driven people...shall be checked and defeated overseas or permitted step by step to close in on our own homeland...Never have members of any military command had...a finer opportunity [to prove] an honor to the profession of arms and a credit to those who bred...
...much more personal." In evidence, Kaye points to his top TV pitchman, William "Hoppy" Haupt, a college graduate (Loyola of Los Angeles) and a former teacher at Los Angeles' Immaculate Heart College Labor School. Says Kaye admiringly: "Hoppy does everything except gadgets. He's extraordinary at selling finer quality merchandise...
...discriminating shoppers, Manhattan's bustling Gimbel Bros, department store this week offered something new, and a new low, in Christmas suggestions. In a seven-column newspaper ad boasting, "No bossy but no bossy has finer manure than Gimbels," the store said: "We think it's a bright-eyed idea to give someone manure for Christmas. Tickle the earth, say we, and she'll laugh a harvest . . . We'll ship a magnificent one-ton batch of Daisy's finest to your door (or to the rear door or the barn) for $19 . . ." The store coyly cautioned...