Word: clean-cut
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...further this campaign progresses the more probable it appears that there will never be a clean-cut military surrender of the forces on the Western Front. . . . This . . . will likely mean that a V-E day will come about only by a proclamation on our part rather than by any definite and decisive collapse or surrender of German resistance...
...chancel steps and knelt around it. Then another farmer gave thanks for God's gifts while the congregation joined him in repeating the last three words of each sentence: "The rich soil, the smell of the fresh-turned earth-come from God. . . . The beauty of a clean-cut furrow, the sweep of a well-ploughed field -come from...
...voted almost 2-to-1 against Fish. But Ham Fish still had enough of his old-line strength in populous Orange County, which had helped send him to Congress twelve times before. Orange County gave Fish a 5,000 majority, enough to win him the Republican nomination over earnest, clean-cut Lawyer Augustus Bennet...
...waited in our stuffy compartment-a middle-aged U.S. captain, a clean-cut colonel, Graham Barrow of Reuters and I-and were thoroughly miserable. Peddlers were hawking cucumbers, wheat cakes and tea to the Chinese soldiers jammed on flatcars and boxcars. Up front the tired locomotive leaked steam at the joints while soldiers loaded the train with supplies -chickens, pigs, a couple of fresh red and white slabs of meat crusted with flies. Finally the train lurched sorrowfully out in the heat up the line to the railhead...
...commander in chief, General Giraud was made responsible to the Committee of Liberation, which received the power "to direct the general conduct of the war." This, too, was a clean-cut victory for General de Gaulle, who had stood for subordination of the military to the civil...