Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsmen gathered in Moscow's foreign ministry last week, a spokesman read a propaganda pronouncement for Latin American consumption. It was slightly disguised as Premier Nikolai Bulganin's answers to questions submitted by Vision, a Spanish-language fortnightly edited in Manhattan. Vision tossed up nice, soft pitches, and Bulganin, or whoever the batter really was, swung for the fences...
...gave away $92 worth of lottery tickets as Christmas gifts discovered that one of the tickets had won $27,000. Another $13,500 prizewinner, arrested for drunkenness after celebrating his win, promptly bailed out all his fellow tosspots in the city jail, explaining: "They're a very nice crowd." Such incidents are routine for lottery-covering newsmen, but last week all Australia waited breathless while the big Tasmanian barrel roared to a stop and English Cricket Star Alec Bedser reached for the marble that would pay someone more than half a million dollars. In the Sydney slum suburb...
...Gurion speaks of Nasser in the same reluctant-enmity fashion. He told TIME: "For a time I considered Nasser a patriot and an honest man. He has a fine figure, a pleasant smile, a nice face-really he gives the appearance of being a nice fellow-and all those people believe he is sincere. But when I asked General Burns [the U.N. mediator], an honest man, to get one little thing from Nasser-an order for a ceasefire, he couldn...
...Great Sebastians, however, the Lunts' cooing counts for less than their billing: the show is liveliest when it is making fun of show folk, and the Lunts are most delightful when they are capering as hams. The plot also permits them their moments of deft heroics, and some nice dressing-room nonsense as well as drawing-room aplomb...
...Life (MGM) is what the wise guys are calling "a bow-wow wow" of a motion picture. Based on The Bar Sinister, a famous dog story by Richard Harding Davis, it is in fact as nice to have around as any bright young pup, and though it officially belongs to children, their parents will undoubtedly be giving it a run when the young ones are in bed. The hero of this waggish tale is a pit bull, called Wildfire in the film as in the life, who looks like a mournfully overgrown white mouse, and will certainly win all hearts...