Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theresa ("Teri") Wassertauer Behrens. 44, secretary of the International Center Y.W.C.A., was known in Detroit as "that nice social worker." Shrewd, non descript Mrs. Behrens is the real-life version of that colorless character which seasoned spy-thriller readers have learned to watch with misgivings. Jailed, she refused food. FBI hinted that she might be the most sinister figure...
...methodical British pilots: "There's absolutely nothing here to stop you chaps. The searchlights look pretty thick but they haven't got glue. . . . There's a bit of flak among the searchlights, but none is as bad as it looks. Now, boys, for a nice run in. . . ." Some 1,800 tons of explosives fell on flaming Berlin...
...Quebec girls sent her bundles of fan mail. She went shopping, headed straight for the underwear counter, confided to the clerk: "The ones I've got on, I made out of the skirt of an old evening dress." She held a press conference, described her father as "awfully nice to work for and not a bit difficult...
...Short, affable Businessman James F. Brownlee took over as deputy administrator in charge of price control. Able Businessman Brownlee (American Sugar Refining, General Foods, Frankfort Distilleries) has receding brown hair, might easily pass for a professor. Said he: "The [professors] I've met around here are nice guys and pretty damned smart...
...would be told: "Nobody asked you to buy it." An Army officer sold his badly whipped, broken-framed 1936 Oldsmobile to an old sourdough for $750. A few days later the sourdough stopped him on the street and said: "I sure do like that car. It was mighty nice of you to sell it to me." Top nightclub of Anchorage is the Lido Gardens, where dinner is $5 and watery highballs are 75? apiece. But the steak is the best that side of Chicago, the vegetables are quick-frozen and the chef gets $800 a month. The place...