Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forging credentials and references, he applied to a medical placement agency. Since hospitals were then clamoring for interns, he was soon placed. Said Superintendent Miriam Watnick of Brooklyn Women's Hospital: "He was a very good doctor and a nice person. He had a marvelous personality and impressed all of us at the hospital. I can't imagine him being a fake . . . He had a medical diploma and references. What could we do?" Nobody, it seemed, had had the time or taken the trouble to check MacLeod's references...
...Manzu was reproved by the Pope for modeling crucifixions in which all the figures were shown nude. Though his new figures were fully clothed, some Vatican officials still raised objections. "The idea of putting a woman [St. Joan] in an armored suit," huffed one elderly monsignor, "may be nice for the cinema but not for St. Peter...
...this Album on one LP record, and it sounds better then ever. The original 1946 version was on Shellac, it was re-pressed two years later on Vinylite; the new LP combines the performance of the former with the sparkle of the latter, all on one nice big convenient disk...
...instance, the slow loris (a primitive primate) marks out its territory, as many animals do, by the scent of its urine. So every time its cage is cleaned, the loris feels dispossessed. It "has to drink incredible quantities of water straight away," says Dr. Hediger, "and sprinkle the nice clean floor systematically just like a watering cart...
...just plain nice and not a bit like the boys back home," decided Missouri's blonde, well-curved "Mimi" Medart, 16, after meeting Egypt's rolypoly King Farouk. Mimi, daughter of onetime Cinemactress Donal Blossom and St. Louis Restaurateur William Medart, first caught the monarch's roving eye in the casino at Deauville. Next day, the two had a chat on the beach, which Farouk followed with a kingly bouquet of flowers. Asked by reporters if she would like to marry royalty, Mimi burbled, "Sure, if I loved him. Aren't Rita and Aly Khan happy...