Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Collier's, ex-Labor Secretary Fanny Perkins gave a glimpse into the Roosevelt political mind: "I have often been asked what Roosevelt thought of his presidential rivals. ... He thought Hoover a solemn defeatist with no consciousness of people as human beings. Alfred Landon, Roosevelt thought, was a nice fellow who didn't know much. He took an immediate liking to Willkie, and he hadn't expected to. ... For Dewey, Roosevelt had little respect. He expected him to make a bad campaign, and was surprised when he made an excellent...
Asked what working habits they would like to see changed in TIME writers, the researchers really took their hair down. It would be nice, they said, if writers would get their stories in on time so that researchers, who have to check the facts in them, could get home at a civilized hour. It would be even nicer if writers would decide what material they want for a story far enough in advance to give a researcher time to look it up. As for writers who ask the impossible an hour before closing time...
...particular, your idea of what a man should be?" The replies to that one (the questionnaires were unsigned) rang the gong from "Certainly not!" to "Yes!" Some found our editors & writers "too blase," lacking "glamor" and "physical charm," inclined to be "walking brains, not people." Others thought them "very nice people," "what I expect a competent editor or writer of this category to be," "superior personalities and a few really engaging minds." One researcher, however, felt that only the editors' & writers' wives could truly answer the question...
...went to Russia at Government invitation to investigate the status of its 2,000,000 Baptists. For the visit the Russians rolled out the Red carpet. The visitor had two nice visits with onetime seminarian Joseph Stalin, to whom he gave a leather-bound copy of the New Testament and two pipes. He also got permission to preach hellfire-&-damnation sermons in churches in nine cities, from Moscow to Stalingrad. Before he was through, his hosts had even persuaded the alcohol-hating Baptist to try a sip of vodka. (His judgment: "It tasted like kerosene mixed with stump water...
Everyone agreed that it was nice to be back at Saratoga, N.Y., the nation's most picturesque race track. Everything looked just as it did before the war, except where the venerable United States Hotel used to stand. There was a parking lot there...