Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope this reaches you in time. I just found out that my husband wrote you two days ago to cancel the TIME subscription we've had for 20 years. Now Pete is a pretty nice guy and I love him, but I just can't put up with missing copies for a month or two, and waiting for him to get around to quietly asking you to put our house back on the mailing list. So please, please disregard my husband's order to cancel...
...near the embattled Algerian seaport now feel like making it their own motto. In the days before the restless, roving bands of fellagha began pillaging, burning, looting, killing, and destroying all that the French had brought to their country, busy, picturesque Philippeville had hoped to become "the Nice of Algeria...
...meeting will attempt to discover "how to make our cities nice to look at and a joy to live in," Mary Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, assistant professor of City Planning, said yesterday. "Some of our American cities are pretty horrid," she observed...
Christmas brings out the pixie in record companies, or at least it encourages them to bring out their pixie singers. Time was when things were sweet and sentimental-as when homesick G.I.s made a nice, solid hit of Irving Berlin's White Christmas-but that mood was dimmed in the smoke of a goofy juvenile called All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (1948), and the pixies took over. The following year, all the kiddie stars were lisping the lyrics of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and 1952 brought the coyest Christmas hit, I Saw Mommy...
Heritage, by Anthony West, not only explained the difficulties of growing up as the son of two unregenerate unmarried geniuses, but was a nice example of how a difficult subject may be handled with urbane intelligence...