Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were very bitter, up there in Thomson's Falls-and at Naro Moru, and Ol Kalou, and at Nyeri, and on the Kinangop, and in all that Mau Mau-infested country -about the politicians in Nairobi. "They sit," said a farmer vehemently, "on their fat behinds, in their nice offices, and make up soothing speeches. What we need is more men-far more men-and more action...
...have some lively memories of British royal families. I recall that once the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, patted me on the head when I was a little boy visiting Germany. The Prince was with the Kaiser . . . The Prince said to me, 'There's a nice little British boy,' because he noticed I was wearing a sailor's hat bearing the initials H.M.S. 'No, sir, American,' I said. And both the Prince and the Kaiser laughed. That was the end of my contact with them...
...story of Salome. According to the Biblical version, Princess Salome of Galilee was a willing accomplice in the beheading of John the Baptist because of his preachings against her adulterous mother, Queen Herodias and her stepfather, King Herod. As the movie has it: Salome (Rita Hayworth) was just a nice, healthy girl over whom men lost their heads-figuratively rather than literally. And she danced her famous dance of the seven veils not to lure Herod into serving up the Prophet's head on a platter but merely to distract the King while a handsome Roman commander (Stewart Granger...
...Political Blokes. Not all of the division's officers and men are enjoying their life back of the lines. Said a junior officer: "It was really pretty thick of them, taking us out of our nice battle line. We had permanent buildings right up to brigade, and commodious bunkers, right up to battalion. The Black Watch officers' mess was in a bunker big enough to seat 30. Now we're piggin' it in these bloody training area tents." An Australian gunnery sergeant indicated he would like some fighting: "Our political blokes don't like...
...today the men of Erin must pause to think of their silent brothers, and look forward to the day when the Green Isle is one. Already the cause is making way. In the very Senate of these United States sits that nice young man who sponsored the bill to unify Ireland. And tomorrow, or maybe the next day, St. Patrick will come back to finish the job he started. Sure, it was not enough to drive the vipers out while the lion still has her paw on Eire's soil...