Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Please, Roland, you don't want this gentleman to think that you are note a nice little boy. Let me dress...
While it is nice to see that the State Department recognizes this noble sport as vital to the country, it is surprising that the Russian chessplayers succeeded where hundreds of talented men from allied nations have failed. Most incredible of all, a majority of those who have been refused visas on account of the McCarran Act have been scientists and educators, men of equally noble calling and of much greater importance to the United States' welfare...
Several months ago, a well-dressed young man called on a woman real estate agent in the small town of Bazainville near Paris, seeking, he explained, a house and grounds suitable for his aged parents. Something nice and quiet, said the young man, adding: "Price means nothing to me." Impressed, the agent showed M. Riviere a large house, somewhat run-down -its porch sagged and its roof leaked-but basically sound and set in seven fine acres of vineyard and orchard. A working-class family named Dupuis with five children lived there rent-free...
Novelist Tennant's young toughies have an indestructible suspicion of the people who run things. Says one of them: "I get fed up with people being nice and me not able to do a thing about it." Devoid of ordinary morals, they are convinced that all they need, for happiness, is a little luck. The cops are no great worry. As Big Rene says: "They can't kill you. Have to fill in too many forms...
...That Cambridge ought to try to smell nice, at least around Harvard and clean its gutters. C. Thomas Linden...