Word: neat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interrelationship between the two events is so directly drawn by so many people that one can't help but nurture some suspicions. The formal integrity seems extravagant-Woodstock's tacky dreams shimmer a little too loudly, while Altamont's function as some sociological reality principle is dramatically too neat. It seems like we've been treated to some show in which one character has been introduced only to be demolished by another's appearance, both acts completed to concerted applause...
...Dark shoes, dark socks, dark pants, a dark tie, and a white shirt are suggested as your basic dress. You will be issued a white jacket to wear at all times on the job. Your appearance should be neat and clean. Beards should be trimmed and haircuts should be reasonably neat. Beyond this, it is to your advantage to have rain gear for bad weather. Umbrellas are useful and can add to your tips. In fact, all these dress and appearance suggestions are made to benefit your tips...
...Corona goes to trial, it would surely be the goriest-and hence the most sensational-in the nation's annals of mass murder. Whatever happens, one thing is certain: there will be no float-parade trophy this year to fill the other front window of the neat house on Richland Road. The window is occupied anyway-by a brass balance scale, the ancient symbol of justice...
Having produced its own bureaucracy, its own tariffs and a plan for its own currency, Europe's Common Market was bound to inspire its own kind of crime. That has now appeared in the form of a neat type of smuggling that Eurocrats call agro-fraud. The illegal activity costs the European Economic Community some $10,000,000 a year...
...associates. "The white press so thoroughly indoctrinated King and his people with the idea that the capitulation (of the Northern-owned Montgomery bus company) was a victory for blacks... (that) they believed it: believed too that other things would fall inevitably like tin soldiers all in a neat line...