Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impressed: "Lady, you've brought home a lot of boys. This time you've brought a man." But Lyndon scarcely seemed the man of Lady Bird's dreams. Eugenia Lassater recalls that "when we would talk about getting married, Bird would just say she wanted a nice man and a big white house with a fence around it and a big collie dog. She wanted a nice nine-to-five man. A John Citizen." Nevertheless, on Nov. 17, 1934, barely two months after they met, Lady Bird and Lyndon were married in San Antonio by a pastor...
...Patsy. When he gets a shoeshine, the bootblack lays on a nice thick coat of mushy black polish before happening to notice that the customer is barefoot. When he wants to look well dressed, he pulls his socks down over his sneakers. When somebody shouts in his face, his eyebrows grow six inches in six seconds. When somebody calls him a psycho-ceramic, he figures they mean a crackpot...
...meet regularly with the Cabinet, and therefore you are eligible for Vice President." After he got the word from the President, added Bobby, "I decided to send a little note to Cabinet members in general, saying, 'I'm sorry I took so many nice fellows over the side with...
...anxious parents? Britain's youth, with more shillings in its pockets than ever, seeks escape from boredom-and from the hearth. "My Dad's trying to get me to join the Young Conservatives," sniffs a teen-age girl. "But I like this set. They're nice, and they say what they mean." "We hope to stay smart forever, not shoddy like our parents," adds a Mod leader...
Stubbed Toes. If the American works for raises and promotion, the European works for his vacation, and he wants it in August. It has done no good to point out that Nice is nicer in July, with more sun and less rain than in August, or that Spanish beaches are pleasanter in June and September than in midsummer. No one listens. Of France's 8,000,000 autos, 4,000,000 were on the road last week-filled with potato salad, crying children, accordion maps and cursing drivers. Seven million campers pitched their tents on 8,400 acres...