Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same technique, but he has not run dry - Lifemanship is every bit as charming a science as Gamesmanship. It is, in fact, simply an extension of Gamesmanship, which is Potter's big name for psychological warfare in friendly games, into the province of life. Where before Potter spoke of "Nice Chapmanship" (the art of putting the opponent in an embarrassing position by being excessively nice to him) he now speaks of "Weekendmanship" (the art, to put it roughly, of dominating a weekend gathering...
...London, a spokesman for the Foreign Office told newsmen that Britain would continue to press the U.S. to be nice to Mao Tse-tung...
Master, who said he took it nice and easy all the way, walked most of the last few miles. Just as he got within sight of the finish line, Dave Smith, who had run the body of the race well behind Master, rushed past him to edge him out for third highest Harvard man. Smith finished 59th...
Part of being nice is being simple. Truman recalls a colleague who told a patient: "You have an area of stringy shadows from your hilar region extending to the base, and I can hear a few crackles in your chest." Says Truman: "Actually, 'Aba-ca-dav-snaba-pooh' would have conveyed as much meaning to the patient [who had a mild bronchopneumonia...
Poet Spender felt miserable almost from the day he was born. When he got to Oxford he made friends with an even gloomier youth who said to him cordially: "What's so nice about you is that you're so naive, Stephen ... I feel you're like me. We aren't clever, we aren't brilliant, we're just ourselves, and we know we're just little undergraduates." Another Oxford friend, Poet W. H. Auden, took a rather more hopeful view. "You are so infinitely capable of being humiliated," he told Spender...