Word: happiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mortimer, an abandoned English country seat (it has lost its identity, too) for the club's annual convention. A task force under Captain Mallet recruits a domestic staff of local people. In almost no time, the frantic overworked village doctor is persuaded that he is really happier as a loutish gardener ("The whole nation is on its last legs," he shrieks, "or rather on its doctors'!"). Poor but genteel Miss Paradise and her brother are so skillfully transformed by Captain Mallet that they forget they are related, and settle down happily as housekeeper and butler. The process...
...these courses that can be given in any one year. These limits should be raised immediately, so that additional choices in the Humanities and Social Sciences can be set up by next fall. The Class of '60's first encounter with the College curriculum might thus become a happier experience than the one this year's freshmen have...
...Steiger designed everything down to the laundry truck for a recently completed, $20 million Zurich hospital. Every purchase order for the hospital, no matter how small, passed across his desk. When a surgeon objected to his unorthodox arrangement of the operating rooms, he said perhaps the doctor would be happier elsewhere. The doctor stayed, and eventually approved...
...Tennessean news columns, as distinctively flavored as Tennessee sour mash bourbon, heavy local coverage is liberally laced with national and international news and brightly written features. Evans, who always considered reporting "the most important and best job on a newspaper," was never happier than when his staffers were digging up a political exposé or spicy feature, such as the discovery of Nashville Heir Tom Buntin in Texas 22 years after he vanished with his secretary...
...happier circumstances-for Argentina, at any rate-Juan Domingo Perón might have made an excellent naval damage-control officer. Last week he set coolly about the job of containing and repairing his losses from the June revolt. For President Perón, the single worst damage from the explosion was public outrage at the burning of nine Roman Catholic churches by Peronista arsonists (see below). It was to the task of conciliating the church, with the least possible loss of face, that he turned first...