Word: nice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he comes home from his first professional tennis tour, U.S. Amateur Champion Tony Trabert will be $75,000 richer-a nice reward for polishing his game by playing with Pancho Gonzalez, pro champion of the world...
Perry Como is so relaxed that he sometimes gives the impression of being made of sponge rubber with a core of Seconal. His eye is soft, his movements languid, his voice soothing. He views the world as being peopled exclusively by "nice guys." Once he applied that label to a famed middleweight boxer he had met. A friend pointed out that the pug had recently gone to jail for kicking his pregnant wife in the abdomen. Perry looked momentarily unhappy, then suggested: "Maybe it was a case of mistaken identity...
...very stylish way. The problem of adapting Gide's story was not great, since it consists of nothing more than a series of dialogues, but the handling of the whole affair by director Edward Morris is exceptionally witty. The result--though scarcely more than a half hour long--is nice theater...
With the turning of the Autumnal equinox, Frenchmen observed that the cycle of natural events was moving forward as usual. In Nice, on the southern coast, leaves carpeted the countryside with flaming reds and yellows. The streets of picturesque Normandy towns echoed emptily to the sound of native voices and accents; gone were the bronzed tourists who had turned the sun-drenched marketplaces into polylingual Babels. Parisians turned up their collars and bent their heads into the chill winds as the first startling drops of snow descended from the sky. And, with the insistent regularity of the changing season, another...
...They offered Wilt the world-tuition, cars, free air travel home on weekends-but Phog outfoxed them all. After peddling Kansas' virtues to Wilt and his coach, he turned his charm on Wilt's mother ("Mrs. Chamberlain, now I see why Wilt is such a nice...