Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Whipple has succeeded in conveying the excitement of his subject without letting romance obscure the unpretty aspects of it. Yankee Whaling has its quota of brown island girls clambering aboard ship, eager to be nice to the white men. It also tells of islands where seemingly mild natives suddenly turned on crews and destroyed them. And there was always the chance that the whalers' crew would run into cannibals and wind up in baking ovens as "long...
...when President Truman called on him to be head of the National Research Development Board of the Military Establishment, Karl Compton retired as head of M.I.T. On the day the news broke, scores of students stopped him on campus to shake his hand ("It's nice.'' said he, "but they don't know how it hurts"). In 1949, on doctor's orders, he was forced to resign from the nation's top scientific post. He went back to M.I.T. as chairman of the corporation. "It is as true today," he once told a graduating...
...Leslie, a nice, middle-aged landlady in Beverly Hills, was once in a nightclub act. That was back in the days when her sacroiliac swung free, and one night she met a tired businessman named George Leslie (Robert Ryan). He invited her to go with him to California for a six-week vacation, and she did. She went for a good many years after that, too, and gave him "peace and contentment." Unfortunately, what George likes may seem to most moviegoers like the long, dull evenings at home that movies are supposed to relieve...
...sweet-and-sour pair of spinster sisters. The sour one treats embroidery as the first law of life, but the sweet one clucks over Nora like a mother and puts in a word now and then about Peter Lynch, the headmaster at Nora's school, and what a nice husband he would make...
There is also the plight of a diamond dandy in Tally One for Me: I soon will stop my "balling" For my heart is led astray 'Twas stolen by a nice young girl By her exquisite play...