Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...folded over and tucked under arm--well, it's nice--but looks sort of pedestrian. Any suggestions...
What made the situation worse was the fact that the two first-string guards were out of action after about ten minutes of play. Gibby King threw a terrific block on the first punt of the game, getting Paul Garrity off to a nice runback, but King had to go out three plays later with a back injury as a result of that block...
Fall has definitely arrived in New England. Gospadin Brenner, one of our language miracle makers, says you can tell because people are beginning to say "Hello" when they meet one another instead of "Nice...
...middle-class education." When his adventures begin, he has just been listening, in his mess, to a broadcast by Sir Stafford Cripps on What We Are Fighting For. Sir Stafford said we are fighting to make a better and happier world. The Young Soldier thinks that is very nice, wonders how it is to be brought about. He decides to collect his thoughts during a walk. Out of the bosky underbrush pops the Devil in the person of Captain Percy Nick (Per-Cynic). The Devil, Heaven's most unsuccessful politician, laughs at the Young Soldier for worrying about Politician...
...success, Publisher Délano could thank his own publishing formula: the satirical laugh gets more results than the solemn warning, the prank is more effective than the preachment. Topaze is never really nice to anybody. But neither is it ever very nasty. Sticking almost strictly to politics, it gigs Chilean politicos with biting irony or refined ridicule, has deftly wrecked many a political career. Two examples...