Word: neatness
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...there is a cause for rejoicing, but I'm inclined to believe that withdrawing the Marines is a good idea." Said Republican Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland: "The President has recognized the irreversible drift of events." Among election strategists, the feeling was that the President had won a neat domestic political advantage by removing the issue of the beleaguered Marines from the upcoming presidential campaign. Said Republican Pollster V. Lance Tarrance: "Ronald Reagan has moved from a sitting duck to a moving target." Congressman Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, described the redeployment decision...
...epic walk, slowly moving beyond the edge of the cargo bay at a sluggish .2 m.p.h.* But as he ventured deeper into the forbidding abyss of space, whatever apprehension he may have felt-NASA no longer talks publicly about astronaut heartbeats-seemed to vanish. "Hey, this is neat!" McCandless shouted, and then followed with a verbal bow to Neil Armstrong's famous comment when that astronaut first set foot on the moon: "That may have been one small step for Neil, but it's a heck of a big leap...
...things were a war on nature: "Their machines moved out over the fields, the mower clattering, breaking down at least twice a day. The old man stomped and swore. He nicked his hands replacing sharp steel teeth. The hayrakes followed his mower, his sons turning the dried hay into neat, continuous piles that looked like whorls of a huge thumbprint." A mother lays down the facts of life as immutable laws: "There's a lot more to life than the kind of love you mean. . . There's children and dogs and a garden to water. There...
...over one's nostalgic sentiment for the old master's original. Director Howard Zieff has retained the classic farcical premise: a jealous husband (Dudley Moore) is erroneously convinced that his young wife (Nastassja Kinski) is cuckolding him and is maniacally determined to gain revenge. Sturges' neat twists are retained too: the husband is still that paradigm of dignity in need of mussing, a symphony orchestra conductor; and while leading the orchestra, he still fantasizes a perfect but totally impractical plot to murder his bride...
West Germany neat Finland 7-4 in the fifth-place game as Erich Kuehnhackl scored three times to rally the Germans from a 4-1 deficit...