Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of Harvard's exclusive Hasty Pudding Club and a straight A student who majors in Oriental history and grinds hard. "He doesn't throw his weight or his dough around," says one of his classmates. In fact, to some other Harvardmen he was just a "nice guy whose name is Cohen or Kahn or something like that...
Lawrence College's Economist Mandell Morton Bober, 65, intense, deadpan expert on Marx, general iconoclast and most quoted man on the Appleton (Wis.) campus. Sample Boberisms: "If God were half as nice to us as we are to him, we'd be living in paradise," "Businessmen have as much competition as they cannot get rid of," "Once we went to market with money in pocket and came home with goods in basket; now we go to market with money in basket and come home with goods in pocket," "If every man carried his cross, mighty few women would...
GARY MOORE. By limiting his gestures and movements to those he would make in conversation with people only a few feet away, he "keeps his motions congruous with the distance his audiences are from their TV sets" and comes across "as a nice guy in a chat with a neighbor...
...After staging a hectically traditional Christmas Eve party ("Ah doan think it's fai-yuh fo' the Social Hostiss ta hafta plan meals fo' eight reindeer"), the Dennis-Erskine team burns its screwy pleasure palace right down to the ground, but not before a nice boy meets a nice girl there-object, simple matrimony...
...named because a young lady named Margaret Truman (no kin to Mrs. Cliftpn Daniel), who knitted the uniform socks, decided that the boys would look nice in red. -The nickname lasted until the era of Joe McCarthy-the late Senator, not the great New York Yankee manager. Then, patrioteering owners with an ear for public opinion and rustlings among the Reds ruled that their ball club should be called the Redlegs...