Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started back in January, when the producers decided it might be nice to do an entire hour-and-a-half program from Harvard to depict an American university at mid-century...
Finally, Silverstein thought he understood. "I see, now we've established that it's quiet and informal. Now how about you two sitting here in nice easy chairs, with a fire in the fireplace...
...great universities, Oxford and Cambridge. Year after year they vie with one another on the cricket field, in the debating hall, on the Thames. Three years ago, returning by air from a trip to Hong Kong, an enthusiastic young Cantabrigian named Adrian Cowell thought it would be nice if the ancient rivalry were carried into a new arena. "It would be real competition," he told a friend as he gazed down at the trackless wastes below the plane, "if we got an Oxford and a Cambridge team together to see which could get through the jungle...
...block-square, million-dollar Shoppers Market in Santa Monica, Calif, was having its grand opening. Behind the butcher counter stood Actor Ernest Borgnine, a smile on his face and a meat cleaver in his hand. The man who proved, in Marty, that butchers are nice people, was being spurred on by throngs of movie fans and pressagents and a group of scantily clad models with placards announcing, "I Love Marty." Reporters, newsreel cameramen and photographers were on hand, and two representatives of the Santa Monica Bay District Meatcutters Union, Local 587 (the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America...
MADAM, WILL You TALK?, by Mary Stewart (250 pp.; Mill and Morrow; 3.50), a fast chase in polished prose, is an outstandingly sleek example of the femnine first-personer ("Had I but known . . ."). Colorfully painted backdrops of provincial France and the Marseille waterfront are a good contrast to the nice young English widow whose holiday is almost spoiled by an unshakable pursue.s