Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years ago this week, an obscure Wisconsin Senator named Joe McCarthy turned up in Wheeling, W.Va. to claim that he had "here in my hand" the names of 205 Communists in the State Department. Left-wing Democrats picked Joe as a nice fat target and right-wing Republicans helped build him into a hero. Last week, at Washington's National Airport, McCarthy stepped out of his Texas-donated Cadillac with his bride on his arm. stepped into the Plymouth Oil Co.'s private DC-3 and headed off on a nine-speech tour, which the Republican National...
...separate occasions. Men & women clutched Philip's arm, tried to shake his hand, patted the royal shoulders and tossed confetti and flags into the car. After a lunch at Sydney University, the duke was flustered by a posse of wolf-whistling teenagers, who oohed: "Isn't he nice? . . . He's beautiful." In the evening, instead of dancing, many of the 2,000 guests at the Lord Mayor's ball stood in a ring around the dais, just staring at the blushing Queen. Elizabeth's smiles gradually vanished, and soon she left the room to avoid...
...turned to the more serious cards. Ah--there was a nice pastel peacock on a modernistic looking one. But--"Than a peacock I'd be prouder, If you'd shout I love you louder." One more try, Vag resolved. If I don't find something now, hell with it. He opened "This valentine is guaranteed. . " and then groaned slightly when a pop-out gorilla leered at him with the inscription, ". . . to scare the YELL out of you." I guess I'm just too old to appreciate these things any more, Vag mumbled as he hunched under his tweed overcoat...
once felt that he and Hoover were not so far apart came to light last week.. In the second volume of his Roosevelt biography (Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Ordeal), Author Frank Freidel reported that Roosevelt wrote Diplomat Hugh Gibson in 1920: "I had some nice talks with Herbert Hoover before he went West for Christmas. He is certainly a wonder, and I wish we could make him President of the U.S. There could not be a better...
What most wins the heart in Rob Roy, more even than the beauty of its backgrounds, is its modesty. The gathering of the clan for Rob Roy's wedding is, for instance, no massive conclave, but a nice little country get-together of 30 or 40 people. The famed battle of Sheriffmuir is not mounted as a mighty spectacle, with thousands of warriors arrayed on either side, but is shown as it must have been fought: with a gaggle of half-armed crofters opposing a fairly small troop of British regulars. Producer Disney seems to have had an idea...