Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Binx Boiling is just short of 30, of good family, a veteran of the Korean War and a securities salesman with a nice knack for calling the turns in his trade. His surface trouble is that life seems like a chronic sickness, his fear is of defeat by "everydayness." Life around him seems fat. genial, kindly-and stupid. "Men are dead, dead, dead; and the malaise has settled like a fallout and what people really fear is not that the bomb will fall but that the bomb will not fall . . ." Comfortable, well-heeled Binx habitually sleeps with his secretaries...
...course, maybe the Houses-to-be have been craftily named after four benefactors, Messrs. West, East, North and South. But if not, perhaps potential givers with nice-sounding names will think it worth a million or two to blot out these names of wind. Ted Nelson...
...Nice Folks. It takes a heap o' claustrophilia to make a trailer a home, but more than 3,500,000 Americans are addicted to what they fondly call Wheel Estate. There are nearly 1,500,000 trailers on the road or lodged at some 18,500 parks in the U.S., and trailer living has gotten so popular that Michigan State University offers degrees in trailering (engineering, design, park management, etc.). It used to be that trailer living was the sole preserve of the unwanted and the rootless. Today, although trailerites have their share of spoilsports, mobile home promoters eagerly...
...Brandy the only witness against the vicar. The wife of his curate said that Thomas had grabbed her "and pressed his body into mine" when she visited his study to collect some baptismal forms. "I told him his behavior was not right," she said. "No, but it is nice," the vicar replied. Also accusing Thomas were two girls aged 13 and 14, who said that the vicar hugged and kissed them when they asked for help with Sunday school homework...
Three Crimson place-winners in the broad jump would be nice, in the persons of Tom Blodgett, All Albright, and Zeke Azikiwe, but first is likely to go to Scotty Thorell of Navy...