Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter, with quick, massed attack impossible, the porcupines were very hard to take and, as long as they resisted, Russian advances around or between them were vulnerable. The Russians found that guerrilla warfare between the quills of the porcupine was the best striking method. Russian communiqués, with nice understatement, referred to the quills as "inhabited localities...
...Last week's chief affair of state was the establishment of diplomatic relations with Vichyfrance. By the country from whom Italy once expected to receive Nice, Corsica and Tunis, she was given only the frontier town of Menton, where the zone of occupation ends at a row of pavilion lavatories...
...scowling. Tempers mounted. A Negro armed with a shotgun stamped out on his front porch and exhorted his colleagues to march through. A news photographer tried to take his picture, but another Negro smacked him down in the snow. Young Negroes cracked up concrete blocks into pieces of nice throwing size. Bricks felled a cop, hit a white woman. Negroes tried to drive one truck through the line. The white men swarmed forward. Mounted cops had to use tear gas. A score were carried to the hospital, more than 100 were hustled off to jail...
...that. When sober, Berigan can apparently still play the most exciting improvisations, from the standpoint of tone, melodic ideas, or what you will, of any white man, and last night, on numbers like "Lover Come Back to Be" and "Night and Day," supported by what sounded like a nice jazz band, I heard the Berigan of "King Porter Stomp" and "Song of India" all over again. . . . After a month of unexciting tons of wax, a few interesting records have finally appeared. Benny Goodman's "Jersey Bounce" and "String of Pearls" is certainly one of his finest since the halcyon days...
This column does not pretend to own a crystal ball; nor can it attempt to draw up any blueprints. But, on the other hand, we are willing to challenge sportswriter Bill Cunningham's attitude toward post-war planners. That popular scribe flashily dismisses the whole matter saying, "It's nice of them to do the heavy thinking while somebody else does the heavy fighting, but their hot air hangs like a steam curtain between the effort and the ultimate...