Word: clean-cut
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fastest-spinning property in pop records this week is not a sideburned bad boy from Tennessee, but a scrubbed-faced, clean-cut campus type from Hollywood. Beefed up in an echo chamber-homogenized and pasteurized in a release called Young Love (Dot Records), the baby baritone of Cinemactor Tab (The Girl He Left Behind) Hunter has teenagers wrapped in a burlap...
...Rhyce is a trained CIA agent, as callous and professional as Moto himself. Even the villain is American-a big, handsome Communist so crafty and devious that he hoodwinks Moto into arresting Rhyce as a spy. There is an even more startling difference: in the prewar Moto stories, the clean-cut American usually won the lovable American girl. In the new book, Jack Rhyce wins only a Pyrrhic victory-the Communists are thwarted, but Ruth Bogart, Rhyce's true love and fellow secret agent, is killed. Clearly, Marquand's Americans have passed many a point of no return...
...citizen of Abilene." And as he looked one way across the rubble at the Soviets and the other way to Mamie and home, Ike finished World War II as he had fought it, in total tune with his men. "Aside from disappointment in being unable to solve in clean-cut fashion some of the nagging problems," he wrote, "I just plain miss my family...
...down to Lexington last week looked more like State Department types than Kentucky politicians. Actually they are both: former U.S. Ambassador to India John Sherman Cooper, dignified and urbane, is running for the four-year unexpired Senate term of the late Alben Barkley; Thruston (pronounced throo-ston) B. Morton, clean-cut and sharp, was John Foster Dulles' assistant for congressional relations before he decided to oppose Democratic Incumbent Earle Clements for Kentucky's second seat...
...those in charge of screening the annual 9,000 applicants for teaching jobs in Cincinnati's public schools, the papers of the clean-cut, 38-year-old Negro seemed in perfect order. True enough, Henry Fordham seemed nervous when interviewed. He was, reported the board of interviewers, "not too coherent," and he used "big words, often incorrectly." But he did have a document to prove that he had a degree from Westminster College in Cochranville, Pa. He had-or so his papers indicated-taught in Newark, Del., and he had testimonials from a John Wagner at Pennsylvania...