Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Post Office." IQ tests use middle-class references that the slum child does not understand; his low score then plunks him into the slow group. He is repelled from reading by fatuous primers about "nice" children who seem laughable even in the suburbs, let alone in Harlem. Harried principals stand ready to expel him; guidance counselors are reluctant to encourage him too much. "Be realistic," they say. "Do what you can do. Try the post office...
...stopped on three plays, Bobby Leo took the Tigers' punt at midfield and galloped back 22 yards to the Princeton 28. Two quick plays later Harvard had another first down and then Bobby Leo took a pitchout from quarterback Ray Kubacki and swept around right end. Two nice blocks gave him some running room, but at the ten he met four Princeton defenders. Hardly pausing to acknowledge this added company, he gave all four a ride as he bulled his way down to he three-yard line...
...Radcliffe senior who will be married in June summed up the feeling of the majority interviewed: "It's efficient, accessible, sensible, and nice if you can afford it. But Willy and I won't live there. We spend all of our time around this University, and when we're together we don't want to be living on top of a thousand other students. We're going to find and fix up an inexpensive place...
...advice on the subject was characteristically blunt. "Widening one's circle is not always a very 'nice' occupation. Let's face it. It involves losing contact with those who insist on remaining at dead center . . . Climbing is an activity that most people seem to think reprehensible. Well...
...going down to Penn for the football game and it's a nice day, wander ever to the rugby field Saturday about 2 p.m. for a few laughs. The Crimson's second team takes on Boston's excellent 'B' squad while the Crimson's first fifteen "book...