Word: finer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he finished, committee members nearly fell over themselves in praise. "Governor," said Tennessee's Democratic Congressman Clifford Davis, the chairman, "this committee has never had a finer presentation. You have given me a weekend of homework." Pennsylvania Democrat Frank Clark said that Scranton was "the best witness we ever had." Minnesota Democrat John Blatnik congratulated him for his "obviously very thoughtful and carefully worked out" presentation. New Jersey Republican James Auchincloss confessed that he had been "thoroughly confused about the whole program" until Scranton came along and "cut away the cobwebs...
Football is fine, but track is even finer. It is newer, too. Grambling had neither a track nor a team until five years ago. What's more, Track Coach Tom Williams, a onetime halfback with the Los Angeles Rams, gets only ten athletic scholarships a year. But he makes the most of what he has. Williams can field nine runners capable of cracking 10 sec. in the 100-yd. dash, a 174-ft. discus thrower, a 26-ft. broad jumper -and the best sprint relay team...
...Yale squad has some other fine performers, but, unfortunately for the Old Eli, their Crimson counterparts look a little bit finer...
Surely, there are better ways for a man of God to promote integration than to incite a mob to violence, or throw rocks at law officers, or lie in the way of bulldozers. I only wish that he could have added to his "fierce sense of indignation" a finer sense of spiritual direction...
...Lorca cult that did him no service by drawing attention away from his works and for cusing it on his life. He was, in fact, a lyric poet of great talent-although many critics would argue that either Antonio Machado or Miguel Hernandez among his contemporaries was a finer writer. Lorca was a romantic, and what he restored to the literature of Spain was the tragic vision that Cervantes understood and that left Hemingway mesmerized. "It is Spanish," said Actress Aurora Bautista of Lorca's greatest play, Yerma. "We are unused to things Spanish." And unused...