Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington's Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, it was a partisan reason for proclaiming "a week of shame and danger." To Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, it meant a frenzied call for a special session of Congress. To retired Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, it was merely "a nice technical trick." To hundreds of U.S. scientists, it was a marvelous scientific-technical achievement, a triumph of mind over universal matter-and at the same time a last-chance signal to beware of onrushing Russian technology. To the man whose job it was to speak...
Positive Hypocrisy. Kolakowski draws a devastating picture of what he calls "the positive role of hypocrisy," a nice philosophical turn of phrase which means simply that a criminal regime that cloaks its actions in moral slogans will, soon or late, be forced to start trying to live up to them. Says Kolakowski ironically: "A social system based on unlawfulness, oppression and unhappiness, when it masks itself with humanistic phraseology, does not, in spite of appearances, become more effective in the long run. At a certain moment, its facade turns against it because it was always alien...
...sipped his coffee, made a crinkly face like a rotting pear, and continued his monologue. "You take my country. There's two niggers for every white. That means when you talk about integrating, you're not talking about sending the niggers to the nice white school, like in Little Rock. You're talking about sending whites to a nigger school with nigger teachers. And we just won't go. Maybe in Baltimore, or Little Rock, but not down home...
After Glow (Carmen McRae; Decca LP). Songstress McRae gives a torchy, slickly phrased reading to such old standbys as Nice Work If You Can Get It and My Funny Valentine, and less familiar numbers, e.g., Guess Who I Saw Today? The voice is too anemic for the big, strutting talk, but just right for the languorous, blues-flavored chitchat of a girl who has been there before...
...discovered that the land belonged to a sickly old widow, promptly persuaded her heirs to sell him the property on a "when-as-and-if" basis; the day after Standard brought in its first well, the widow died, whereupon Mike sold the property back to Standard at "a nice price-a very nice price." Like every gambler, he took some lickings and came back for more. Says Benedum: "All that counts is how the averages are working...