Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small, tight-lipped hood from Brooklyn named Joseph ("Crazy Joey") Gallo. In 1959, when he met Robert Kennedy, then counsel for Senator John Mc-Clellan's rackets-investigating committee, Crazy Joey examined Kennedy's office rug and offered his professional opinion: "It would be nice for a crap game...
...Gary Morton, 44, a tall, dark nightclub comic whom she met over pizza on a blind date a year ago. Said Lucy, busily making arrangements for a Bergdorf Goodman trousseau, the services of the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, and an Acapulco honeymoon: "I'm looking forward to a nice quiet life...
...everything but name, combs every issue of every paper for statutory violations. A government commission was appointed in 1950 with the avowed purpose of examining the country's newspapers-but its members often acted like thought police. The commission once rebuked an English press reporter for writing more "nice" things about an opposition party than about the Nationalists...
...might be ready to sell another heirloom. Duveen also had a wicked way of dealing with his competitors. Once, when a High Church duke asked him to take a look at a religious painting he was considering from the rival firm of Thomas Agnew & Sons, Duveen blandly said: "Very nice, my dear fellow, very nice. But I suppose you are aware that those cherubs are homo sexual." As Duveen's biographer S. N. Behrman tells it, the painting went back to Agnew's forthwith...
...passing hampered the Crimson's efforts to tie the game, and several scrambles in front of the Bruin goal produced nothing. Crimson wing Sam Rodd was stopped twice, once on a nice save by Bruin goalie Pete Gilson, and once on a trip by Haskell as he broke loose down the sideline...