Word: flair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other designers, prescribed pin stripes for Rocky. "He would have new confidence in himself if he were to care how he looked and maybe people would start noticing him instead of his money," said Piero Dimitri helpfully. Don Robbie thought Rocky should show more old-fashioned flair. "I don't think he should bother with English tailoring...
...Wichitans finally have an alternative, and one that arrived in unusual circumstances. First, the Sun is a weekly attempting to compensate with depth and flair for what it lacks in immediacy. Second, it is and will continue to be distributed free, an arrangement that normally signals bottom-of-the-barrel journalism. Most curious of all, the Sun was launched last month by KAKE-TV & Radio, Inc., Wichita's prosperous ABC affiliate. That was a reversal of tradition; in the past, newspapers have organized or acquired broadcast properties...
...ankles in vanilla extract. This may be a fine touch for the Sherlockian satirist--and there have been plenty of them--but it hardly befits the genius of Watson. Because of preposterous insertions, like this pun: "You've a real gift for telling a tale, Watson, and a flair for titles, too, I'll be bound," or the following canard: "On that previous occasion Holmes wished to employ Toby in order to trace an orangutan through the sewers of Marseille," one comes to rue moribund Watson's addled state or to suspect the young Meyer of a deceitful forgery...
Coach Ford compares Bullard to Phil Esposito of the Boston Bruins. "He's an opportunist. He takes chances and he's got a flair for scoring," Ford said yesterday. Assistant coach Seamus Malin added "the type of wide-open offense that we use is ideal for Lyman's natural style of play...
...stay with him. We just hope he keeps it up and it rubs off on some of the other players. Heck, he's placed some shots that even Gordon Banks [one of the best soccer goalies in the world] couldn't have stopped. Lyman just sort of has a flair for scoring...