Word: neat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charge is a mass of explosive with a carefully calculated cavity that focuses the force of the explosion in a desired direction. If the cavity is a conical depression, the explosion shoots out a spike of flame with enormous speed and power. Wartime bazookas carried shaped charges that punched neat holes in the armored sides of tanks...
Wisdom: "Bob, are you there?" called Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky from the piano in his soundproof Hollywood studio. "Come here. Sit down. I want to show you something." Squinching like a mole into neat, penetrating closeups, Composer Stravinsky then proceeded to show a young protege, Conductor Robert Craft, as well as several million Sunday afternoon viewers on NBC, how musical ideas occur. "You have to touch the music," said Stravinsky, innocent eyes bugging and jowls aquiver, "not only to hear it-because touching it, we feel the vibration of the music...
...virologist and pediatrician (with a grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) appeared in New Guinea. Crew-cut Dr. Carleton Gajdusek, 35, of Yonkers, N.Y., heard about kuru and plunged into its problems. Tramping through rain-soaked forests to Fore hamlets, he rounded up patients for the neat, bamboo-walled native hospital at nearby Okapa Patrol Post. To do autopsies, he had to haggle with victims' relatives for the bodies. The currency: axes and tobacco. (Dr. Gajdusek got some bodies at the bargain price of only...
...foot dummy nicknamed Agatha swung from atop the tower of Moors Hall last night. The effigy was a combination of wire, newspaper, and tennis balls all compiled in a neat, morbid package...
Using a halfback option play with devastating effect, the Green ripped at will through the Crimson defenses in the first half. Two touchdown plays, covering 26 and 14 yards respectively came on the option. This play is a neat variation on the standard quarterback option...