Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foolish trip. In their stories, some of them said so. Wrote the New York Times's Felix Belair: it was "one of the most hazardous 'sentimental journeys' ever undertaken by an American Chief of State." All last week, editorials viewed the expedition with alarm: it was nice that Harry Truman wanted to go home for Christmas, but it would be an awfully easy way to lose a President...
...York City, an ex-major, his family and his medical supplies were evicted onto a Brooklyn sidewalk to make room for a new tenant. An ex-commander lives and practices in a furnished room while he looks for home and office space. An ex-lieutenant colonel was offered a nice set of rooms for $3,000 a year, if he would pay a bonus of $6,000 cash. A Greek doctor (one of the ten or so who serve New York's 60,000 Greeks) cannot practice because the only places he can find have no water and need...
Three O'Clock Dinner, Josephine Pinckney's smart, brittle, readable novel about life and love in Charleston, S.C., loped off to what the New York Times termed "a nice start"-600,000 advance copies as Literary Guild choice for October. It also won $175,000 from MGM. Probable star: Lana Turner...
...Harvard moves slowly," he went on, "it's an old man. What I really object to is the fuss Harvard's made over this. It is not a landmark, or a milestone, or anything of the kind. But it's nice to have you trailing along with...
They couldn't take it. They couldn't take the discipline; they didn't like the system. They didn't like to take orders from younger professional officers. . . . They were unhappy that they didn't get a nice, new warship berth, but instead drew the amphibious force, or perhaps even a drab and dangerous LST. But worst of all, none of this group of "experts" was worked hard enough...