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Word: nice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even in the heat of a political campaign, most Californians agree, U.S. Senator Thomas Henry Kuchel (rhymes with treacle) is a nice guy. Affable, earnest, courteous-Tommy Kuchel is all of those and more. Last week the principal reason for Dwight Eisenhower's trip to Los Angeles was.to lend a needed helping hand to Kuchel's re-election campaign. Yet, after Ike landed, Nice Guy Kuchel was so nice that he let another Republican, ebullient, shoulder-thumping Governor Goodwin J. Knight, elbow him out of the limelight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Nice Guy | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...Chief Justice Earl Warren and Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, has merely pointed to his record as a hardworking, honest public servant (state assemblyman state controller, U.S. Senator). If California voters decide on the basis of talk, Dick Richards has a good chance. If they decide on performance, Nice Guy Tommy Kuchel will go back to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Nice Guy | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

Well, that's what all the nice patrons of the Shubert have been saying to themselves, and that's why the rest of the run is pretty well sold...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Bells Are Ringing | 10/26/1956 | See Source »

...structure and retaining wall, connected house to ground with gangways. The main supporting columns reinforce the theme by stopping just short of the ground, where the weight is transferred to iron rods (which also protect the wood from termites). Says Breuer: "Where there's structure, it is always nice to express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Floating Box | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

Died. Hassard Short, 78, British-born stagecraftsman, director of more than 50 Broadway and West End shows; in Nice, France. Light-struck Hassard Short began (in Honeydew, 1920) a spectacular series of stage innovations by slinging an electrician over the stage in a bosun's chair to handle overhead spots, later installed the first permanent lighting bridge (The Music Box Revue, 1921), and the first revolving stage (The Band Wagon, 1931), startled Broadway by staging the Easter parade scene in As Thousands Cheer (1933) in rotogravure brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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