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Word: nice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pennsylvania Republican delegation two weeks ago, Donald Fine, nine-year-old son of Governor John Sydney Fine, was wearing an Ike button. A newsman asked young Fine whether it meant he liked Ike. Replied Donald, clearly a chip off the old block: "I think Eisenhower is a nice man. I think Taft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: President Maker? | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

Yvonne (The San Francisco Story) de Carlo, 29, a Hollywood bachelor girl who has spurned many suitors, yawned and crossed a recent Paris acquaintance, Aly Khan, off her list. Said she: "Princes are no different from other men; Aly is just a nice boy." Then she explained why her sights are set so high: "It is a biological necessity for me to idolize a man for his accomplishments." Her choice above all others: "Albert Einstein [73] ... the perfect companion . . . the only man who could go to the moon with me and know just exactly where he was all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Gracious Gesture | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

Test Case. In Houston, Mickey Martinez jumped into an undertaker's display coffin and lowered the lid, later explained to police: "The satin stuff on the top was nice and soft, but the bottom sure was hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 16, 1952 | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...even some, as delicately geared as Author Purdy, who can close their eyes and "imagine a string-straight, poplar-lined Route Nationale in France on a summer's day. That growing dot in the middle dis tance is a sky-blue Bugatti coupe, rasping down from Paris to Nice at no miles an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pull Over to the Side | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...trip to Sweden, when it suddenly struck him how "stylized and ugly" drinking fountains had become. With the help of Swedish Architect Hans Asplund, he assembled four old bathtubs, then worked six weeks to cut, weld and enamel them into his nonstylized fountain. Explained Junyer: "Water is such a nice thing, it should be treated nicely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Flowing Fountain | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

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