Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taxicabs were stalled by the cold. In The Netherlands' southern Limburg, milk companies gave up their bottling because the milk froze and cracked all the bottles. In Vienna services at famed St. Stephen's Cathedral had to be moved into the crypt. The people of sunny Nice, all set to celebrate the city's annual carnival, opened their windows to find a blanket of snow covering streets and palm trees. In Rome at least one moppet, seeing Rome's first real snowfall in his lifetime (ten years), begged permission of his parents...
...fool, came to these lands! The little girl got caught. Ha! Ha! . . . And who asked me to come? No one. Not only nobody asked me, I was even warned against it ... And there is no toilet, just snow up to the neck . . . Between ourselves, one could have a nice zoo over here, because every night the wolves are howling, like in a movie. My darling idiot, you got caught. All my friends are now having their hair fixed in a beauty shop, and I, miserable girl, will spend my whole night on bare wooden planks. There are no virgin lands...
...Money, No Sex. After the wedding Sol wanted to settle down in The Bronx ("There was a nice apartment there, with a doorman and everything, near Yankee Stadium"), but Yolaine picked the Century on Central Park West. ("I can remember when I was a child," Sol recalled wistfully, "and used to walk in the park and see the Century. That was class. I never expected to live there.") Yolaine's father, Murray Gross, who had made a fortune in brassieres, bought the furniture and wall-to-wall carpeting for their 4 ½room suite...
Whatever the answers, says the judge advocate on the eve of the court-martial, "they'll know we asked the questions"; and in asking them, and simultaneously asking the audience to do some thinking, Time Limit! contrives a nice, new twist for a thriller. With the help of a good cast and production, it also provides much that is vibrant and tense. If the play has its shortcomings, the chief reason is the old have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too one. Time Limit! tries to be exciting and significant by turns, rather than the one by means...
JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE devotes an entire issue ($1) to an elaboration of the ideas concerning science and society which Franklin elaborated with elementary but nice two-plus-two clairvoyance...