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Word: nice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kong, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand. It was a journey designed to inform him further on a part of the world that is not too familiar to NATO's Eisenhower. And New York State's 97 convention delegates, in Tom Dewey's pocket, make a nice talking point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: I am Not... | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...Aisle (music by Jule Styne; lyrics and sketches by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; produced by Arthur Lesser) can smile gratefully at its stars, Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray. Lahr remains among the best of the oldtime funnymen, and there are virtually no new ones. He has a nice comic face, he can make nice comic faces. He has a showman's sixth sense; his antics have authority. Best of all, he can lose his head splendidly when all about him are stodgily keeping theirs. As Captain Universe, leading the Space Patrol in a piece of stupendous interplanetary science fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Revue in Manhattan, Jul. 30, 1951 | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...Manhattan, he is getting a lot of laughs, good reviews, and $2,000 a week for playing one of the simplest (and most difficult) of roles: that of the natural nice guy who occasionally comes out with a funny crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Leisurely Style | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...more about the jungle carrier, sanitary experts have set up dozens of forest stations in Panama. There, well vaccinated Indians display themselves on outdoor platforms, invite mosquitoes to bite them and be trapped for science. Well paid by Panama standards ($70 to $90 a month), the Indians consider it nice work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Jungle Yellow Jack | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

...Lampoon. It was pretty gay the night we put the last page of the old rag to bed. The whole gang returned from Bar Harbor--without tans, of course, except for Joe Klowernig who somehow always managed to do the wrong things. Not that he wasn't a nice guy, but Joe somehow didn't seem to fit in. As the party went along (I guess we'd call it the party of the third part by then seeing it was getting on in the evening), so did Joe. It got so bad that we had to coax...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 7/19/1951 | See Source »

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