Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stopped at a restaurant in a tiny Indiana town. A soldier was in the place, a nice-looking boy. He told me he operated the place, but was drafted. He said: "It's all right. I'll leave all of this [it was just one room] because I think it is my duty. Of course. I found out after I was drafted that a man can get out of it if he has the money...
...second floor a door opened, and Vag held his breath. The high heels crossed above him, came to the stairs, and she looked down. Wellesley, sort of, or maybe Smith. Nice...
...ridden, slum-ridden"-a very nice little jingle indeedbut not original. Why pick on slums as a particular characteristic of Puerto Rico when the whole world is "ridden" with them, and even the wealthiest country on this earth...
Once he sat in a "fine, decent pub, the type found only in rural England, run by a nice middle-aged woman and her two daughters." It was three miles from an airport where some of the R.A.F. night fighters were stationed. One "lad named Terry, who was like a character out of a book" described just what he would of do to Nazi troop planes if they ever tried to invade England...
...your picture taken, then take it back to Cambridge, where you will be met by Yard Cops or other persons of authority who will escort you to an office "somewhere in the Yard." You don't have to march in time or anything like that: just be nice and don't try to pull anything tricky. Once you get to the office, your troubles are almost over. As you stand in line and await your educational passport, feel in your wallet. Of course you have ten dollars resting expectantly between the bill folds. There are three other pieces of green...