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“He was the right person at the right time for our club,” manager Dave Roberts said before the game, cracking a sly grin.

Like anchovies or miso, sun-dried tomatoes work best when they aren’t the star, but the sly supporting player.

Hefti has titled the work “Five things you can’t wear on TV,” a sly reference to cautions against wearing pinstripes on camera, lest moiré patterns interfere with a television monitor’s crisp electronic imagery.

That sounded like a sly attempt by the plaintiffs to put more pressure on the red states to make their own case for the wholesale destructiveness of the NIH order, in public.

He met my happy laugh with a sly one and said just enough for me to imagine the scene: Atlanta apartment, twin bed, 1971.