Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chandler deliberately avoids mentioning his opponent's name, except to call him "that inept, incompetent, nice, pretty young fellow who wants to be Governor." By actual count, Chandler has so far ignored or declined 80 challenges to debate Breathitt on television. As for Breathitt, he has some good references. An ancestor was a pre-Civil War Kentucky Governor, for whom Breathitt County was named; his grandfather was a state attorney general, and an uncle was lieutenant governor. Schooled by his family in politics, Breathitt took a law degree at the University of Kentucky, served three terms in the legislature...
...contact with their faculty except in primarily social circumstances; they are likely to regard any professors they know more as benign uncles than as teachers. "We go to see them if we get behind in their course," said one girl. "Of course, we don't go unless they're nice," added another...
...girls seem to prefer working on their own; certainly the Smith faculty is very much available. Everyone agreed that the professors are "always there, and always nice about listening to you," but they felt that it "just never seemed important to see them about anything...
...Poor Serb," Slovene had moaned, "he would choke to death on a real American cake. My cousin at the Window Shop can make him something nice...
...larger ambitions. "I'm gonna drive down Walnut Street in a Caddy on Derby Day." he says, "and all the people will point and say, 'There goes Cassius Clay.' Pretty girls will be there, and I'll smell the flowers and feel the nice warm night air. Oh, I'm cool then, man. I'm cool. The girls are looking at me, and I'm looking away...