Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awfully sorry. I really don't think I can make it. It was very nice of you to call, though." That sounded good...
Another pause, a click, and she came out of the phone booth still uncertain. The voice just didn't fit a short guy. And he sounded so sort of shy and nice . . . my God, the handsome stag...
...bright, but no scholar. He went to an eastern prep school (Choate) and then to Princeton, where he graduated in 1922. At Princeton he was known as something of a politician and was a moderate success: managing editor of the Daily Princetonian. A Princeton roommate recalls Stevenson as "a nice, harmless, pleasant guy" whose personality got him the nickname "Rabbit...
Dedicating the bull to her mother, the 22-year-old Texas girl took bold command. Four times she drew the bull's charges in neat pases naturales, once so narrowly that blood from his flank streaked her tight-fitting pants. "Ole, huera! [Nice going, blondie!]," yelled the crowd. Then Pat executed a series of gaoneras (passes in which the muleta is held with one hand outstretched, the other behind the back). On one rush a horn grazed and jarred her. The fans yelled as they had not yelled since the great Manolete fought years ago in Juarez...
...newsboy pal to some pretty good beats," such as the surrender of Killer Lepke to Winchell on Aug. 24, 1939, and the murder of Mad Dog Coll. During the Kefauver hearings, Winchell ran a column of anecdotes in which he "remembered all sorts of things about Frank Costello-all nice," and followed it up later with an exclusive interview picturing him "as an authority on how to stamp out crime...