Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What we all felt, knowing the resolute Swiss temperament in moments of emergency, was simply that the U.S. Legion of Merit ribbon would look sort of nice on those grey-green Swiss uniforms...
...flagrant cases of Errol Flynn and Charlie Chaplin in propagating marital irresponsibility among the youth of this country are not sterilized by the example of the few nice people in Hollywood," Carle C. Zimmerman, assistant professor of Sociology, yesterday retorted to movie colony protests which had arisen because of a similar statement he had made recently...
...market, almost knocked out by Wachholtz' first whirlwind attack, was making a nice comeback. That heartened businessmen. Cool, self-confident Minister Wachholtz, busy with plans for cutting Government spending and starting a state bank, knew that the real job lay ahead: to diversify the economy and end the old reliance on world markets for copper and nitrates. Whatever the outcome, Chile's new government had made its choice: it would stand or fall according to the success or failure of Wachholtz' efforts...
Next season, home games of New York's three big-league baseball teams will be televised. The Dodgers granted television rights to CBS last month. Last week the Yankees signed with DuMont Television, the Giants with NBC. Televisers were paying "a nice figure" for their privileges, and rates would jump if sponsors were found. Would park attendance slump? Yankee Skipper Larry MacPhail thought not. "We'll gain two fans for every one we lose," said he. He might not be far wrong. There are only 7,000 television receivers in the New York area...
...cake in token of his catholicity of taste in headgear, wore 32 assorted little hats. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, drew a distressed tut from the British trade paper, Tailor and Cutter, which ran two pictures of him. "Take the picture above," wrote the editor. "Quite nice. The stripes run parallel to the edge of the lapel. . . . Now look at the larger photograph. Oh! ... the trousers are too short. . . . The over coat is not a very pleasant sight. . . . And why is[he] so careless with his buttons and flaps?" Muttered Tailor and Cutter: ";We are very disappointed...