Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minor incident highlighted a serious problem last week. Liberian airfield workers just could not grasp the U.S. logic in shutting down a nice strategic base like Roberts Field, on the west bulge of Africa. They missed their regular pay. The Army had buttoned up the big Air Transport base at the end of March and left a handful of G.I. guards to hold off the exuberant jungle and its prowlers from the runways and buildings...
...conspicuous, hard-working way, the Varsity golf them has gone and got itself the prettiest-looking record of any College team playing this season. M.I.T., Bowdoin, Williams, Amherst and B.U. have dropped by the fairway-side in successive strokes, giving the Crimson duffers a nice little shooting average...
...nice thing about New England weather," said 'Poonprexy Clemens R. Woop ocC yesterday, "Is that it might rain on Thursday." With a nervous glance at sunny skies overhead, the Dutch Tile entrepreneur told newsmen that his pawky band of funnymen were holding daily prayers for a deluge which might eliminate the 23-2 pasting by the CRIMSON's diamond forces, scheduled for tomorrow afternoon...
...hope. Then Joe Baksi, an invader from the U.S., rudely flattened the symbol by breaking Woodcock's jaw in the first round and going on to a seventh-round technical knockout. The BBC announcer made the fight sound as if a big bully had picked on a nice little man in the street who was harmlessly minding his own business...
...landscapes and shacks have a remoteness seldom appreciated in films; it has even occurred to someone that the noise of blowing leaves is pleasant. Such careful details help bring the audience deeper into the country. Ramrod is decently made, nice to look at, and at times exciting. Unluckily the story is long, complicated and not, on the whole, worth the care that has been lavished...