Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...welfare" has always been a nice sounding word suggestive of kindly old ladies with baskets on their arms--and "state" has remained more or less neutral. But as Humpty Dumpty scornfully said, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less." And some Congressmen, and some weekly picture magazines, and some candidates for the Senate in the New York special election have been putting these two words together and packing into the result just what meanings they would choose it to mean...
...D.D.T." (drop dead twice) is still fashionable; the dangling "but," sounded with rising inflection on the end of any declaration or question, is new there. Example: "Where you goin', but?" In Detroit, high school girls now talk of the "goofs we go with"; in San Francisco a nice guy is a "good head...
...Marshall Plan should be kept working, however, for its political and humanitarian results are looking better and better. Standards of living have climbed in every country receiving U. S. aid. Unemployment has been falling. And ECA officials, who take a nice practical look at such things, balance high living standards and low unemployment against communism. There is very good evidence to back up the head of ECA's controller's office in Paris when he said "Marshall Plan-aid has reduced Communist pressure in every European country...
...engaged to All-America Glenn Davis for eleven months before she gave him back his gold football last June, broke her four-month engagement to William D. Pawley Jr., 28, but kept the 3^-carat diamond ring that she had lightly called, in happier times, a "nice piece...
...series of petty and sordid intrigues." Forgotten was the strict, humble, ascetic life once outlined by St. Benedict. "The monks . . . had all the comforts of the upper class, with servants and feather beds in their own private apartments." By the 18th Century, Trappist novices were having it so nice that "noble and bourgeois families chose such monasteries as refuges for their less talented sons - the ones who did not stand much chance of making a way for themselves in the world...