Word: notch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest soft-coal carrier. Last December, only 44, he was boosted to president. As such, he had a big dollars-&-cents stake in the mine dispute, but was neither pro-operators nor pro-miners. In Republican Newton, businessmen agreed that Solid Fuels Administrator Harold Ickes had made a top-notch nonpolitical choice...
...Some of my songs," says Lara, "are the fruit of inspiration, some of hunger." Only a few of the 800 are top-notch Lara. But these combine a distinctive Latin melodic gift with true poetic quality. With a kind of soft, confessional stridency, little hollow-eyed Lara whispers his songs to the women of Mexico. He pictures them in brothels, on their knees beside confessionals, in the arms of lovers, in frustrated spinsterdom. He is by turns caressing and despondent, lunar and neurotic...
Dapper Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, 45, who used to be five Ambassadors and two Ministers (all to London-resident Governments in exile) became six Ambassadors and one Minister when the U.S. and Czecho-Slovakia upped their diplomatic relations a notch, from legations to embassies...
Executor of this break-through and temporary commander of the U.S. II Corps (as Lieut. General George Patton had been at Gafsa and El Guettar, where it had been expected that tanks would be supreme) was Major General Omar N. Bradley, a top-notch infantry soldier. Tall, wiry and grey, General Bradley is as tough as his hardest topkick. He was an outstanding athlete at West Point. When a new 550-yard obstacle course was opened under his supervision at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana, he personally tested its 14 hazards at top speed...
Captain Don MacKinnon should be able to squeeze by with a first or two in the hurdles, but even he will be hard pressed by some top-notch Exeter timber-toppers. Wille Fisher, the other half of Mikkola's point-winning due, is a cinch to triumph in the hammer-throw, although he will be tossing a 16 pound weight while the prep school slingers will use a 12 pounder. If he gets into trouble, however, Wille plans to make his final throw with the lighter pellet...