Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson of Michigan is a nice old man. Whether doddery, 81-year-old Mr. Dickinson deserves more resounding praise is debatable. As Governor, using the kneel & pray technique, Mr. Dickinson has campaigned against drinking, tobacco, fallen women. Fortnight ago, the Governor called Lansing correspondents to his desk, read what he regards as a divinely guided statement: "I would be uneasy if not active and busy somewhere. Because of these reasons and because unusual demands have been made that I be a candidate for Governor, I am saying that if the electors think...
...speech ("The watchword is only one, categoric and binding: CONQUER!") Mussolini said Italy's continental objectives would be sought first. maritime ones later. This turned all eyes toward expected action on the French Riviera and Alpine border-Nice and Savoy. But last week when France gave up, all the Italians had to do was march...
...majesty was credited in Nice last week with insisting that French civilians be given 48 hours to evacuate the Riviera and Alpine border before Italian bombings...
France, resigned to the loss of Alsace-Lorraine, Nice and Savoy, probably a part of Flanders and most of her colonial empire, hoped only that her people would be allowed to live as Frenchmen in the rest of their well-loved country. But suppose Hitler were generous at Munich? Munich was still Munich...
...During a Ciano speech, Italians began screaming for Corsica, Nice, Tunisia, Suez, Djibouti...