Word: neatest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler, Napoleon, Stalin. Perhaps the neatest job of analysis and persuasion in Conditions of Peace is Author Carr's presentation of "the accidental, but remarkably close, parallel between the role of Napoleon and that of Hitler...
Most uneasy diplomat in the Western Hemisphere last week was Germany's Ambassador to Argentina, Baron Edmund von Thermann. Before his eyes one of the Nazis' neatest, costliest propaganda machines was being turned into junk. What was worse, it seemed likely that he would shortly be back in Berlin where he would have to explain what went wrong...
...neatest little spy stories ever uncovered broke into print last week in Los Angeles. Arrested by FBI men were two dapper little Japanese and Al Blake. U.S. citizen. Al turned out to be no spy but a hero: he had pulled off an amateur job of counter-espionage that would have made a professional spy turn green with envy...
Well aware was Philip K. Wrigley that priorities would allow him no more aluminum for foil to wrap his chewing gum. So last week smart Phil Wrigley sold his remaining 500,000 lb. to OPM, thus simultaneously 1) struck a blow for national defense, 2) pulled his neatest publicity coup since he bought famed Pitcher Dizzy Dean for his Chicago Cubs...
...kinds of cafe singing and yields nothing to her sister in ability to make a rhinestone gown twitch with significance. In singing Zip, the show's funniest novelty song, a girl named Jean Casto, wearing horn-rimmed goggles and a tweedy sports ensemble, stops the show with the neatest trick of the musical-comedy year-a satire on a strip-tease in which she removes nothing more than her overcoat...