Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that she is trying her wings: she is tired of her Cadillac and wants another; she wants a mink stole; in Paris last winter she went on a clothes-buying spree and overdrew her checking account; in London she snapped back at her teacher, "Wouldn't it be nice if Miss Anderson dropped right through the floor...
...people, as for its State Department, this was a moment of rare anguish; an autopsy on a friend is not nice work. With such diplomatic surgery, Secretary of State Dean Acheson (and the staff of 80 who had worked on the white paper) had operated on the prostrate body of Nationalist China. Their task was complicated by the fact that the body was still stubbornly squirming with life...
...When his best friend announced that he was getting married, 21-year-old Charles Donelson of St. Joseph, Mo. decided that it might be nice to make it a double ceremony. Donelson, an ex-G.L, ran a newspaper advertisement: "Wanted, one girl under 21, to get married by Saturday." After interviewing only a few of 253 willing candidates, he chose gangling, 18-year-old Irene Krebbs and married her exactly on schedule before a big crowd at the Frog Hop ballroom...
...NKVD, he discovered, knew every detail of his personal and military history. They even showed him photographs of himself "at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam and at the international horseshow in Nice"-snapshots which he had never known existed. "We have such a file for every military and political personage in the whole world," said the proud interrogator...
...Male Animal. In Springfield, Mo., Mrs. Pauline Suggs filed suit for divorce because her husband put an ad in the paper describing himself as a "lonely gentleman wishing to meet a nice lady, 35-40 years...