Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solicitude. In Salt Lake City, a woman bus-rider accidentally smudged a man's coat with lipstick, later called the Deseret News, asked them to explain the whole thing because he seemed "such a nice man" and she would hate to break up his family...
When she comes on stage, she looks like a nice, terribly shy girl in a long white gown. After a moment's pause and a demure curtsy, she suddenly chases the announcer, swings on the velvet curtain, howls a snatch of some unrefined ditty, walks on the side of her heels, pops her teeth and straddles the mike. Radio audiences miss much of this, but if television is just around the corner, Cass Daley's success has hardly begun...
About the biggest morale booster to us forgotten men of the Assam Valley was the news broadcast concerning the momentous speech of Sergeant Marion Hargrove [TIME, Dec. 17], ex of the U.S. Army. The chairman was right in calling him a nice young fellow. We feel that he speaks for us out here and for 10,000,000 other nice young fellows throughout the world...
Later, the Army changed its mind and asked for the prototype of a new jet fighter, to be built in 180 days. Lockheed turned out the prototype of the 550-m.p.h. Shooting Star in 143 days. When V-J day came, this was a nice reconversion cushion. The Army kept it in production; it was the only jet fighter being made...
Defense positions are to be filled by Bob Gardner and Bob Cowen, the latter having proved his worth, last Monday, as an ice as well as a gridiron star with some nice body checking. Cowen, incidentally, winds up his college career next month. Barry Carson and Bill Glidden will probably hold down the wingmen jobs, with Bill Ayres as center...