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Word: nice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collects another $28,300 in prize money, making it a total of $781,970 to date for the Dancer. The Dancer gets a meal of some oats, bran, carrots and flaxseed, and the usual victory greeting from Lester Murray: "Come on, you big bum, and I'll do you nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: The Big Grey | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...hands. "Monsignor, you can persuade them. Tell them not to vote for me," Sarto pleaded. When the commander of the Noble Guard went to take his first orders, the new Pope offered him a chair with his own hands. When the commander protested, the Pope said sadly: "It was nice to carry chairs for people. Now it's the end of all that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Name in the Book | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...Intellectual refreshmen," he may tell you if you ask, "is nice. But not for me," he will add. "It costs too much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A House Is Not A Home | 5/25/1954 | See Source »

...season of peaks, at least came off as an agreeable plateau. And beyond a nice steady flow of the respectable, the more-than-conventional, the slightly-better-than-average, there was a constant sense of small jets and gushes and freshets, and of a main flow fed by tributary streams. Perhaps more than anything else, 1953-54 was the season when off-Broadway began breathing, however faintly, down Broadway's neck. On lower Second Avenue, without having arisen out of anybody else's ashes, there emerged the Phoenix Theater. Whatever its shortcomings, it gave Manhattan its first really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Finish Line | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

Property Improvement. In Milwaukee, arrested for taking an ax to the electric power pole in front of his house, Albert Freiberg, 41, explained: "The pole mars the beauty of my property ... I told them right from the start that if it didn't look nice, I'd chop it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 17, 1954 | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

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