Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Education: Attended Bloomington public schools, Choate school, graduated from Princeton in 1922. Was something of a politician and a medium-sized man on the campus, managing editor of the Daily Princetonian. His nervous, hurrying habits ("a nice, harmless, pleasant guy," a roommate recalls) brought him a nickname: "Rabbit." Entered Harvard Law School, dropped out within two years because of low grades. Did better at Northwestern University Law School, was graduated...
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Farouk's ex-brother-in-law,* is a nice liberal young man, who likes to call himself a "working monarch." He owes his throne to his father. Reza Shah Pahlevi, a mighty man who rose from sergeant to emperor. (The British confirmed Reza's kingship after World War I, but broke him in World War II.) The young Shah's sensitivity over his family's short claim to royal legitimacy helps render him indecisive...
...farm long enough to tell a reporter that he was "very happy not to be connected with any party or candidate" this year. The candidate for his interest right now, said Wallace, is a new hybrid gladiolus seedling which he is developing. The flower, he explained, has "a very nice ruffle, if you know what that means...
...Britons are too ready to believe that Washington is aching to plunge into World War III. Britain's government-Labor or Tory-has been lax about telling Britons the facts of life in Korea, has kept alive the notion that the best way to peace is to be nice to Mao Tse-tung. Britain's newspapers have treated the Korean fighting as a dull, disagreeable affair worth only a few sticks of type. The House of Commons debate was marked by ignorant assertions that went unchallenged-such as that the U.S. is training Chiang Kaishek's troops...
...members) group that looks down its nose at mere "chimes" (fewer than 23 bells) and prefers a carillon with a large number of bells because it is easier to play. The organization has nothing to do with the old English game of change-ringing,* measures a carillon's "niceness" by its weight. Mariemont's instrument is "nice": its largest bell weighs 4,760 lbs., its smallest...