Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France and England to find the sun in Spain, Italy and the CÔte d'Azur. "From Menton to Marseille, hotels were hanging out the "Complet" (full up) signs, often socking the dollar-heavy tourist as much as $9 a day for back rooms without running water. Nice and Cannes, sunny as usual, were so solidly booked that many late arrivals had to go 20 miles into the mountains to find a bed. Budget-minded travelers discovered a more economical sun-drenched paradise in Spain, where a room with bath in the best hotels...
...Philco-Goodyear TV Playhouse had troubles both onstage and off. Last week's play, Recoil, by A. J. Russell, had a good plot (a nice guy wants to get through life without stepping on anyone, but his girl and events won't let him), an adequate cast, and uneven, but sometimes moving, writing. However, the actors had more than average difficulty remembering the words; even bright-eyed Susan Shaw, doing the Goodyear commercials, blew her lines...
...small boy who entered his pet pooch in a pedigreed dog show; when told he was sure to lose, the boy replied, "That's all right-I didn't expect him to win. I just wanted to enter him so he could meet a lot of nice dogs...
...British don't want to capture Leningrad and we don't want to take Glasgow." he told Sir William, who smiled and replied diplomatically: "Leningrad is a very nice town, prettier than Glasgow." The other guests got up to go, but Khrushchev persisted, kept tipping his glass with Hayter's. "Now we don't want any war, and we are not afraid of each other." Khrushchev told him. He turned and linked his arm with Chou's. "Now here's a good example of friendship-the Soviet Union and China. That...
...Albright's most famous works to date are a phosphorescently rotten-looking woman in underwear called Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida and a moldy door called That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do. "I just can't seem to paint nice things," he muses. "I've tried but it doesn't work. Once I designed a Christmas card and got a prize for it but no royalties. I think the only copies sold were those bought myself. It was a stained glass window-very dirty and dusty. Looked like...