Word: neat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wayward Bus Boy. In Boston another classified ad in the Herald called attention to a "BUS BOY. sober, wants work. Conscientious, rapid, accurate, honest, neat. Talk with Para-Psychologist. Like work-Cycle. Worked Sky-View Restaurant . . . Discharged for eating pie, ice cream...
...hanging of the portrait and setting up the shelf of books. Both the portrait and the books had been there about ten years. The then, and still, chairman, Allen Briggs, was what is sometimes called an administrator rather than a scholar. Briggs was a dapper man, with a neat dark mustache. One would not have been surprised to learn he was a vice-president of a stocks and bonds company. For the public, or in addressing incoming graduate students, he stressed scholarly achievement; but in the in-fighting, some of it done in deadly silence, he was for what...
...line for the presidency of a Wall Street bank. He has always tried to measure up to the principles he learned at his mother's knee -live on the right side of the park, and never attend matinees. But a series of rude intrusions disrupt his neat, parklike existence. First, it turns out that his wife likes the wrong kind of matinee: one afternoon Michael peeks into her bedroom and sees her with one of his junior trust officers. He finds some consolation in a second marriage, but a sordid financial squeeze play threatens his castle in the conditioned...
...most developed country, anyway?" Then back to slave trade and the Barbary Pirates. Or a doubleedged solution to both farm surplus and foreign aid problems might be presented. "Just give the farmers a sabbatical every other year on the condition that they spend this time abroad." A neat panacea, but impossible...
...large bill like this is going to be a severe jolt to anyone, regardless of financial circumstances," says a neat card prepared by Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif, and handed out last week by doctors to patients or their kin. And with good reason: Cutter was talking about bills for one of the highest-priced medications currently in general use-fibrinogen, a fraction of human blood. Fibrinogen restores the clotting power of blood, which may almost vanish when a woman hemorrhages during labor, or in patients of either sex after major surgery. Average cost of fibrinogen to the patient...