Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compelled to greet you in English, Mr. Fairbanks, since we want to be nice to you and should we greet you in Spanish you wouldn't understand...
...They were pretty nice about it," said Hub to Maw. "First place I went to fixed us up a credit. . . . They knowed we was on the WP & A. . . . Right nice folks...
Jean Knox wants to increase the efficiency, prestige and numbers of A.T.S. There are now 50,000. She wants 150,000 by Christmas, 200,000 next year. If she has her way they will be very useful in the terrible war against Hitler-without forgetting all about that nice war between the sexes...
...blue cockade of the R.A.F. on her camouflaged sides, ground-looped on a take-off and burned as her pilots skipped out of danger. At Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field four Douglas DB75 whisked in from the west in formation, were landed by their khaki-clad pilots as nice as you please...
...little side-wheel steamer began to take trippers to Coney from Manhattan at 50? a head. Later came horsecars, and then several railroads. Roughnecks, sports, plug-uglies and vulgar politicians began to jostle nice people. In 1920, when the subway reached Coney, people from the-city's steaming tenements could get dunked for two nickels, by simply wearing bathing suits under their outer clothes, discarding the latter when they got to the beach. Bitter bathhouse owners called them "drippers" because they dripped on the subways going home. Recently New York's famed and inexorable Park Commissioner Robert Moses...