Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vernacular thus established, he sent around to each of the other 24 Democratic chiefs of state at the 48th U.S. Governors' Conference at Atlantic City, N.J. a set of baseballs autographed by members of all three of New York's major-league teams.* It was a nice pitch, but, like most of Harriman's Atlantic City efforts, it missed the strike zone. The upshot: at the end of the seventh inning of the big Democratic delegate contest, Harriman still trailed Front Runner Adlai Stevenson, 3-1. Nothing Harriman tried at the conference quite seemed to work. When...
With the air of a man being sweetly reasonable, oily-tongued Premier Chou En-lai last week offered to negotiate with Nationalist leaders for the "peaceful liberation" of Formosa, i.e., for its surrender to Red China. In short, he was prepared to be nice about it, if the Nationalists would just give up. Chou omitted his usual derogatory references to the Nationalists, blandly offered to meet with the "Taiwan [Formosa] authorities" either in Peking "or other appropriate places." At the same time Chou assured military personnel and civilians on Formosa that they can return to the mainland on visits whenever...
...Baby (Fred Astaire; Verve). A song that slips in amidst the hurly-burly of modern pop songs about as unexpectedly as a soft-shoe dance in a rock 'n' roll show−and brings as much relief. Astaire, who helped write the relaxed lyrics, sings them with nice feeling, as always...
Watson's concern with everything that had to do with his employees appeared paternalistic, even overbearing. Yet Watson was convinced that the fuller he made his employees' lives, the faster IBM would forge ahead. He set up country clubs for his workers, bands and choirs ("I think nice music has a good effect on everybody"), classes in everything from art appreciation to home repairs...
Member of the Wedding. Near Holtville, Calif., after he and his new wife became mired in the sand dunes, Kenneth Marcle dutifully hitchhiked into town for help, returned to find his Chevrolet and bride gone, next morning located his wife in nearby Date City, where she explained that a "nice man" had come along, pushed the car out of the sand and taken her to Mexicali, Mexico for an evening "doing the town...