Word: neat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doug Manchester utilized a mob scramble to put the Crimson four up at 6:91 and then shot a neat cross-pass which Bray hammered home at 11:44. Bray is currently the team's leading scorer, with four goals and an assist in two games...
...Templer. "Deserves highest credit," said the Economist. "Staunch service," said the London Evening News. "An absolute ace," exulted Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton. In London to report to Churchill on his "full powers, sparingly used," he faced the press in a Colonial Office room overlooking Westminster Abbey. Dressed in a neat, dark, double-breasted suit, with blue & white striped shirt and stiff collar, he did not at first glance look like a man who had just flown in from the jungle. But there was a brown sweater under his waistcoat-a concession to chilly London-his 6-ft. frame was down...
...crumbling collarbone he wore a pearl as large as a walnut. His right hand held a large jade cube, his left a jade sphere. Jade ornaments stood by his feet, and nearby were two jade idols. Popeyed and sporting neat goatees, the idols looked like Mayan sun gods. Dr. Ruz's hunch had paid...
More experienced Fellows; then, are needed. But how can the Fellowship renaissance come about? Some have suggested slicing the number of Littauer Fellowships to raise the ante for each one. This is a neat bit of budget juggling, precisely what the Nieman Foundation tried when it was caught in the inflationary vise...
Suffering and sighing through puppy romances, they took turns loving the lovely Marisa, a girl who was at least as strong on sentiment as she was on sex. It was all very serious, of course, but also a little comic, and Pratolini does a neat job of simultaneously pitying and teasing his adolescents. He also succeeds in capturing the look of young love. "My companion," muses Valerio, "was a girl of 16, with a crown of golden hair, a shining innocent face; she wore green wool gloves and shoes with medium heels and knitted stockings that came...