Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rags-and-flowers merchant, walked on through one of the more squalid slums of Europe. In one street they met a group of children. "It's the King!" cried a child. "How do you know it's the King?" "It must be. He has such nice shoes." The children shyly touched the young man's raincoat. Older people stared as at a mirage. For this indeed was young (22) King Baudouin of Belgium, out among the poorest of his subjects, without guard or escort, in the company of Public Health Minister Alfred de Taeye...
...Having been the subject of a number of TIME stories, he has come to know a number of our researchers. "I'm a great admirer of the TIME researcher," he says, "and I must have seen dozens of them. They're a most eager and sort of nice kind of girl. They believe that what they're doing is important...
...made sense to the France that bred Antoine Pinay-not the American tourist's France of roasted chestnuts and rhinestoned poodles on the Champs-Ely-sées, "Allo darleeng" in the Place Pigalle, pressed duck at the Tour d'Argent, bikinis at Biarritz and baccarat at Nice-but the provincial France of hard-scraped farms, gnarled vineyards, smudgy little factories; of closefisted small shopkeepers, scuff-knuckled farmers and black-stockinged bakers' daughters. It is a France tradition-bound, slow to change, as stolid, solid and unspectacular as the pallid, stucco-faced building in the small town...
...number of girls were curious to know why the freshmen needed the new study hall, although they thought the now arrangement "nice...
...Actually what I do this for is a rest. I like little kids, and it's great to see them so nice and innocent. Then I see them a few years later and they're all dressed up in minks and stuff. They know all the answers and they aren't nice any more. I like them better this...