Word: well-chosen
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...After the match the team celebrated the landmark in Harvard sport history with champagne. Washauer led a toast with a few well-chosen words, "Here's to the first 300, and may there be 300 more...
...flawless picture: the tall, pants-suited woman, attractive in the years before middle age, her hair dyed black, her husky voice speaking well-chosen, mature words. The apartment bright with Florida sun and four children, and comfortable with the acquisitions of tasteful travelers: an inlaid bone chess table from Pakistan, tiny prints from Arabia, a brass samovar from Teheran. She has worked as a nurse and now attends college for a nursing degree; she goes to occasional cocktail parties...
General LeMay's woman's town includes some potent and highly motivated females. Elegant Widow Katharine Graham, 63, presides with couturiered cool and a few well-chosen four-letter words over a communications realm that includes the Washington Post, Newsweek and three TV stations. An invitation to dinner at her handsome Georgetown house is a prize second only to dinner at the White House, and her guest list is guaranteed to be more stimulating. At a party she threw to celebrate Columnist Joseph Alsop's 60th birthday, 140 guests sat down to dine under a tent two stories high...
...outspoken liberal who "enjoys controversy," according to one colleague, Knowles is proud of the fact that he can pick up the phone and bring all major news media to his office in less than an hour. In the last few years, his controversies have been well-chosen and he has almost always come out on the right side. Consequently, he has the same standing among younger interns in his hospital that Brewster has at Yale. His run-in with Nixon over being appointed and then dis-appointed as assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs only bolstered his reputation with...
...horse goes on to win the race any way. Fry's familiar, hopeful theme is that life, like a horse, sometimes has to be given its head to work things out for itself. Unfortunately Christopher Fry's characters and incidents are rarely as surprising or as meticulously well-chosen as his metaphors. His wit is bright, his set pieces are ringing, his sentiment is affecting, but his drama, unhappily, is hollow. The glittering language too often seems to be gilt for a nonexistent lily...