Word: neat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There was the smirk of Hjalmar Schacht, in his neat office in Düsseldorf, insinuating politely: "Perhaps now you realize that it is not so easy for a people to get rid of demagogues just by wishing them to go away...
...leaky water faucets and warned: "A dripping faucet [wastes] 30? a month." Wastebaskets also caught his eye. Wrote Mansure: "When papers have missed the wastebasket and desks are littered, the cleaning operation takes as much as 75% more time per unit cleaned." His newest order: "Keep your desk neat, and your aim at the wastebasket true...
Setting a neat example for freeloading public servants who dote on hauling their relatives all over the lot at public expense, Admiral Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, landed at New York's La Guardia Airport in a military plane after a flight from the capital, five minutes later greeted his wife, who flew from Washington by commercial airliner...
...opener was an adaptation of The Royal Family, a 1927 comedy hit by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. A trifle rusty and overdone for 1954 and TV, the play covers the strenuous alarums, excursions, and extravagances of three generations of fiercely theatrical Cavendishes (who bear a neat resemblance to the Barrymores) in the course of resolving the heroine's now-familiar indecision between the stage and a normal marriage...
...designing exhibition rooms for Washington's new National Gallery and painting miniature Goyas and Rembrandts for his small-scale models of the rooms. During World War II, the wreckage of cities and men's lives filled Fransioli with a desire to create a neat and orderly world in painting...