Word: neat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There, on a production line neat as the works of a watch, 1,000 workers assemble diesel trucks and little Fiat cars. Another factory builds boxcars for Mexican railways, employs 228 men. The third is a $4,000,000 made-in-Japan factory that last week started producing the first made-in-Mexico textile manufacturing machinery. Financed mostly by Tokyo's Toyoda Mills, it is run by Japanese engineers, employs 800 Mexicans whose highest skill until lately was making mescal...
...today's cars. "They write asking why my skirt never rides up. It's a simple matter of placing more weight on the calves than on the thighs, as women usually do." Another bouncy blonde, Mary Dean, has reduced her $30,000-a-year job to a neat formula: "It is most important not to think of yourself. All you should be interested in is the package you're selling...
...while those two Aussies ran better-than-four-minute miles last month, Ireland's Ron Delany developed a taste for speed himself. Carefully pacing himself on the fast track at Compton, Calif., the Villanova sophomore kicked past Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen in the stretch and clocked a neat 3:59 flat. He had it all timed so nicely that he pulled Nielsen past the four-minute barrier with him. Nielsen's time: 3:59.1. ¶ Bulge-upholstered Paul Anderson, the 325-lb. strongman from Toccoa, Ga., played around with the big bar bell at the National A.A.U...
...often in years gone by, the jejune was bustin' out all over, this season had a great deal of flavor, and a fair amount of body as well. Even so late as April, when playwriting usually sports its lightest-weight and most ill-fitting clothes, plays still looked neat or showed substance...
Cease to Tease? Frémont had what some might consider too neat a talent for winning the friendship of useful men. First it was a lawyer who sent him to college; then it was a man who became Secretary of War; most importantly it was Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, whose daughter Jessie he married. For the illegitimate son of a woman who had run away from her husband in favor of an itinerant French schoolteacher, Frémont came a long way. As a general in the Civil War, he incurred Lincoln's distrust...