Word: neat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Repetto gave up base hits in the first and second. The first of five strike-outs, plus a neat double play from Bob Hastings to Bobbie Cleary to John Simourian closed out the first inning...
...doctors decided that they could save the ear. With eight neat stitches they sewed it back, taped it to the side of Velazquez' head and gave him penicillin and anti-tetanus injections. Then, reluctantly, they watched him march back to the ring. With vengeance in his eye and blood bespattering his "suit of lights," he faced his second bull. Taking quick control, he played the bull with daring passes that brought the crowd to its feet chanting oles. Then, in a sudden hush, he killed the bull cleanly with a single thrust. As the bull dropped to its knees...
Cambridge zoning makes strange bedfellows indeed. Across Bow Street from Adams House sits Father Feeney's headquarters and, comfortably alongside it, Matrix Structures Incorporated, designers of a novel geometric Play-dome. In contrast to its neighbor's statuary, Matrix inhabits a neat concrete and glass building where delicate wooden figures are propped, balanced, and hung throughout. Inside, five architects work in a somewhat less ordered atmosphere of strewn blue prints, building materials, and incomplete, matchstick-like models...
...about to celebrate her 80th birthday, she slipped south to Florida for a vacation. There last week she died of a heart attack. The news reached Vogue as staffers were handing around the latest postcard from their editor emeritus: "I think of all you busy Vogueites," said the neat hand, "and envy you your full days...
...bubbling broth of a wee tradition of such films as Tight Little Island. Instead, its value is in the nearly dream-like simplicity and charm of civilization in a Scottish highland glen, and in the excellent photography of bonnie lochs and braes. There are also neat touches of comedy, but they seem subordinate...