Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visiting The City is likely buy his Cue or New Yorker find "what's happening", eat at a few restaurants, see some shows, look at hieroglyphics in the Metropolitan Museum and return to his rustic existence with some small change and a reinforced conviction that New York is indeed nice to visit but no place to live. This unfortunate pattern results largely from the fact that what is most interesting in New York is often most difficult to find, and the knack of living both well and at the same time inexpensively in this most varied and wealthy of cities...
Thank you for the enormously kind way you described my ride at the Washington horse show [Nov.'3]. Actually it was a very nice horse, and if he'd had any kind of a chauffeur up on him at all, he'd have done pretty well. Anyway, Bobby says if I can be referred to as the onetime scourge of the equestrian East, give him five more years and he'll be All-American...
...game, Harvard came back strong in the second half, but the Yardings couldn't cross the fiercely guarded Tiger goal line. The first half 14-0 score remained unchanged. Tom Biladeau put some nice passes in the air, but the cold had begun to take its toll on receivers' hands...
Seaborg is married to the former secretary of the late Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, one of his campus colleagues at Berkeley, inventor of the cyclotron and a Nobel laureate. Seaborg and his wife agreed that it would be nice to have a family of six children-and they have six, including one boy who was calmly and tidily delivered by his father. With characteristic resourcefulness Glenn Seaborg had already studied obstetrics and knew exactly what to do in such an emergency. Such scientific foresight should serve him well in his present...
...what of brute, locked up with the rest? The answer is that Thurber considered himself, half correctly, a rough, bruising satirist. "I am in a corner without being backed there," he wrote, "and I often come out fighting." To be thought a nice, lovable old character must have been as hard to endure as the slow onset of blindness. He bore both afflictions with dignity...