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Word: nicely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bank, where he was a student at age six, told the students of today in fluent French: "I see myself again as if it were yesterday, leaving for the Ecole . . . when I see little Americans going off to play baseball in the U.S. I cannot help thinking of the nice games of 'hunter's ball' that I played with my little playmates in the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Mellow Diplomacy | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Phil plays a passable clarinet, Mimi at best has a middling voice, and their humor -which leans heavily on Mimi's buck teeth-belongs to the Keith-Orpheum circuit of three decades ago. In a way, they are so bad that they are disarming. There is a youthful nice-kid quality about them, and an innocent gaiety that captivates audiences: Ford and Hines were an instant national hit when Jack Paar gave them a guest shot last August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Corn, Corn, Corn | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...main doorway, and out stepped the smiling Dalai Lama for his first meeting with Nehru since the God-King of Tibet fled the Red Chinese reconquest of his homeland (TIME, April 13). "How are you?" asked Nehru. Answered the Dalai Lama in his best English: "I am quite nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Adventurous Life | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Until the revenuers struck, Slenderella's fast-talking President Lawrence Mack, 40, had shown a nice talent for handling complaints. A former general manager for big Stauffer Reducing Inc., he fought off a patent infringement suit by Stauffer after he set up Slenderella with a reducing table similar to Stauffer's. He also shook off a campaign by the Better Business Bureau against his "misleading advertising," which promised that size 20s would be squeezed down to size 14s. Mack promoted Slenderella with TV and radio spots, built up sales to more than $20 million in seven years, held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Slimming for Slenderella | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...prince owns a nice little tenor and is possessed with (or perhaps by) what somebody once called a sort of gee-whiz charm. No freckles were discernible on Mr. Cox's visage from Row H, but he played as if in his soul he were freckled. This was probably not what anybody had in mind, but it will certainly...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Princess Ida | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

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