Word: neatness
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...anniversary edition of the modern Games should take place in the nation where the Olympics were born. But most I.O.C. members succumbed to their misgivings about the Greek capital's pollution and potential safety problems. Atlanta promised smoother sailing, to say nothing of the likelihood of the kind of neat profit from commercial sponsorship perfected at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. Complained Melina Mercouri, actress and former Greek Minister of Culture: "Coca-Cola won over the Parthenon...
...dictate, dominate and control the next 70 minutes. The entire offensive line played fast and furious, frustrated only in its inability to nab a tying goal. In her first collegiate game, freshman Laurie Uustal put away the only Crimson goal early in the second half. It wasn't a neat and tidy, Sports Illustrated cover-photo goal, but it did eliminate the deficit...
...History people are neat," says a Robinson Hall staffer wearing a blue blouse ("cotton," she notes), a white skirt ("linen") and Barbara Bush-esque pearls...
...hand and a cigarette in the other. The hillsides are pocked with deep sinkholes and covered with bentonite, a loose mudstone that gives the sensation of walking on popcorn. When Horner slips, he drives the pick in up to its haft and hangs on as it plows a neat furrow 30 feet down a hillside without catching on anything solid. If this were an Indiana Jones movie, he would smash into something wonderful at the bottom -- the skull of a Pachycephalosaurus, say. In real life, all Horner gets is a banged-up human knee...
Finding any kind of neutrino is a neat trick. The Baksan detector consists of four tanks filled with 30 tons of the element gallium, which liquefies at about room temperature. If a solar neutrino of the right energy interacts with the material in the tanks, a feat of atomic alchemy will transmute some of the gallium into germanium, another metallic element...