Word: neat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bookworms were combing their dusty shelves for copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Hopalong Cassidy Comics. Reason: the lady and the cowboy, together with a rapidly mounting list of other books considered offensive by the government, were suddenly hotter than a chunk of radioactive cobalt. By a neat change of phrase in the law that formerly merely prohibited the sale of such books (penalty: $600), Interior Minister Theophilus Dönges had made it a crime even to possess them. Standing dusty and unused on a forgotten bookshelf, a copy of Stuart Cloete's The Turning Wheels...
...Neat Package. A year after it was founded in 1697, under a grant of England's William III, Trinity Church was a little, unsteepled frame building outside the city limits, at the head of a country road named Wall Street and on a lane called the Broad Way. Thus, like many another early New Yorker, Trinity got rich simply by sitting still on a piece of real estate. Trinity's balance sheets would be enough to give the average budget-bullied minister spots before the eyes. Though by 1825 the parish had given away two-thirds...
...court, Warren moved in with a friendly and casual air. When he takes a breather from work at the neat desk in his oak-paneled office, he often strolls through the building greeting surprised employees with a hand outstretched and a self-introduction: "I'm Earl Warren." Said one guard: "He shakes more hands in one day than many other Justices do in five years...
...Lawyer. Ambassador Dean, 55, was sent to Panmunjom last October by his longtime law partner in Sullivan & Cromwell, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. He arrived in a neat, pinstriped suit and polished, low-cut shoes. But as the days wore on Dean changed to the only other outfit he had brought along: a rumpled grey suit and a brown sweater that looked as if coffee had been freshly spilled down...
...Christmas carol softly to himself. Around him, cheerful Christmas displays glowed brightly in red and green. Vag was contented. You can really see a lot of Boston on a tour like this, he thought. He had been close to all the education in Boston, seen lots of really neat places. Soon Vag would hear the blaring street noises again, but now they would sound different because he knew the city, and its history, and its people...