Word: neat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Covering demonstrations is not something that the press does very well, but it is something that the press does very frequently. Demonstrations come in neat packages. Readers like them. It is easy to tell what is going on. Demonstrations dramatize all the big issues of our time, like Vietnam and racism. And they usually end before 5 p. m.-in time for the 6:30 News...
Photographers get very upset when demonstrators try to block their cameras and smear Vaseline on their lenses(a neat trick used at M. I. T.), since the photographers say they are merely exercising their famous freedom of the press. The demonstrators say that they are exercising their freedom to keep out of FBI files...
...double bed in the master bedroom was mammoth. It was covered with a neat, pleated hot-pink spread. Quickly and efficiently, Angela took a clean sheet from the closet and spread it over the bed, all the while chatting easily...
...PARADOX of the past is that liberalizing the rules can increase their complexity. Exceptions and variants do purchase more individual choice in the material studied, but as they are incorporated into the rules, the text gets longer. What tends to come out is not something neat and streamlined but rather something resembling the Income Tax laws, which are wondrously complicated but do not represent a cogent system. The best way, and the most efficient, to gain the freedom to tailor academic programs, is to abolish concentrations completely...
...through the trenches, they reasoned, there should be more seismic shocks in these regions than in surrounding areas. Tests proved them right. The U.S. oceanographic vessel Glomar Challenger has provided even more persuasive evidence. All 135 cores of sediment it has collected from the ocean floor fit into a neat pattern: the farther from the mid-ocean ridge they were drilled, the older they proved...