Word: neat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Process, the "Church of the Final Judgment," was founded in 1963 by a man named Robert DeGrimston and his wife. DeGrimston's photograph appears inside several of the Process books which were "recorded" by DeGrimston himself. In the photographs, he has, like many of the men in the Church, neat shoulder-length hair and a trimmed moustache and beard; he also has the elevated gaze of a solemn visionary...
...growth of marigolds. It is as small an event as Laura's dance with the Gentleman Caller in the Williams prototype and just as affecting. Craftily enough Zindel goes on to turn this rinky-dink science fair exhibit into a metaphor that ties the whole work together in a neat and ambivalent fashion by the final curtain...
...Neat as it was, this scheme still left unanswered one more question: How could DNA or RNA choose from among 20 amino acids to produce complex proteins by using an informational system that had only four code letters?the four bases?at its disposal? An answer to this intriguing problem was suggested by Physicist George Gamow, who likened the four bases to the different suits in a deck of playing cards...
Andretti snaked around the 3.2-mile course at an average speed of 109 m.p.h., fought his way past tenacious Mark Donohue in a Formula A Lola-Chevrolet and then closed on the leader, Scotland's Jackie Stewart. Executing a neat passing maneuver on the 31st lap, he gunned by Stewart's blue Tyrrell-Ford and won going away. The second heat was more of the same as Andretti bested Stewart by a 12.3-sec. margin. After accepting his $39,400 winner's prize, Andretti suggested that the U.S. Formula A team could take some consolation from...
...president and research director, who says, "Light whisky will make it because it is in tune with the times." The times have not been kind to bourbons and rye blends, which are often the preference of a breed that seems to be vanishing-the men who take their tots neat. Though both types of whisky continue to rank first in the thirst of U.S. drinkers, their appeal is diminishing. Vodka, the quintessential light drink, with little flavor and less aroma, is becoming increasingly popular. Scotch and Canadian blenders have also profited by promoting their products' lightness...