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Word: nice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...china designed by Franklin Roosevelt. The dinner, with turkey as the main course, was called "a good American meal." Harry Truman, who dislikes white tie & tails, wore them well, was apparently at ease and smooth and amiable with the starchy, beribboned envoys. The diplomats agreed they had had a nice evening, and pretty informal, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: White Tie | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...twelve weeks' salary and bonus). But Johnson did not get his job back. For Marathon, which had made no bones about its penny-pinching objective, this was cheap. Said jobless Colonel Johnson of the court's award: "With Christmas so close, it's very nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Colonel & the Company | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

General Dwight D. Eisenhower got a nice title too. A schoolgirls' club in Boston passed over Frank Sinatra and voted the General "The Most Exciting Man of 1946." The General's aide told the girls the General was "flattered indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...starts the day off nice," said Commissioner Mason, "and the next 30 days as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Spiritual Breakfast | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...when the congressional committee probing surplus property called on Littlejohn to testify, he was expected to announce the sale, a nice feather in WAA's badly battered hat. But what Boss Littlejohn told the committee flabbergasted everyone. Said he: all bids for the Inches were off because "I do not feel that any of them guarantees to the Government what I consider a fair price . . . $113,700,000." Moreover, said he, the Army-Navy Petroleum Board had previously wanted the pipelines used for oil only. Now it would permit either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Inch, Big Blunder? | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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