Word: neat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which the Tory opposition hammered hard at the government's seemingly soft policy toward Communist China (TIME, April 5), External Affairs Chief Lester ("Mike") Pearson last week gave a careful summary of Canada's current foreign policy. Pearson, the main target of the opposition attacks, executed a neat withdrawal to prepared positions, going out of his way to assure Parliament that Canada would make no deal at the Geneva Conference to grant recognition to Red China...
Everyone loved Rhoda Penmark. She was a charming child of eight, neat, precise, with delightful manners. Her brown bangs and braids, her dimple and the cute gap between her front teeth made her a favorite of all the neighbors. She could devastate her parents by simply tossing her head charmingly and asking: "What will you give me, if I give you a basket of kisses?" The loving reply always was: "I'll give you a basket of hugs...
...Such Conditions. Two days later Premier Laniel, trim and neat in a blue suit, with a white handkerchief peeping from his breast pocket, lumbered into the Assembly to take on the debaters. Why did the government not accept Indian Prime Minister Nehru's proposal for a ceasefire, to be followed by negotiations? the Socialists demanded. Was it because the Americans said not to? The U.S., added Socialist Daniel Mayer, is, after all, paying most of the bill...
Lack of height proved no handicap to the gold jerseys Wintergreen squad, as they surprised their taller opponents by outplaying them on the rebounds. Key man for the victors, guard Jim Jones of Dunster, used neat ball high scorers, with 11 and eight points respectively. Two Winthropmopn, Goorge doyle at guard and Dave Bodiker at forward tapped in seven and six points respectively to round out the four top Wintorgroon scorers...
...Sammons family also puts out Who Knows−And What, Who's Who in Commerce and Industry and several other similar books in which names often go that do not make the parent edition. For imitators who pirate his list for other books, Editor Sammons has devised a neat trap. Under every alphabetical division, he has a "burglar alarm," a fake listing of a nonexistent person with an address that leads right back to Who's Who's door. Pirates trapped last year...