Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loan from his rich, crude, stupid New York brother. The brother, accompanied by his warmhearted wife, immediately flies down, immediately flares up-the first of many times-for laughs. His wife expostulates with him, sighs over the boy and wants to take him home with her; she finds a nice widow for the father. The father ditches a blonde for the widow, but at the end he is still unattached, the boy still gallantly at his side...
...particularly President Eisenhower, puts on the pressure. Mr. Roosevelt, a former Governor of New York, learned how to do his pressuring sub rosa, and Mr. Hall has probably learned the same technique. But Ike, an affable fellow, hasn't. He has thrown himself right into the middle of a nice, friendly fight in the Empire State, and it seems unlikely that he will emerge unscathed. Without Mr. Hall, whom the President praised "for the mistakes he saved me from making," Ike has jumped into water over his head. If Hall loses the nomination, it will not look good...
Like every U.S. company. General Electric Co. believes that nothing helps business like being nice to big customers. But last week G.E. learned to its horror of a case where things had gone too far. In a Mann Act case in a Manhattan courtroom, three call girls testified that at least three times last year one or another of them had given her all for G.E. products. Lewis E. Rinker and John A. Murray, both officials of G.E.'s supply company in Newark, N.J., admitted they paid the girls to entertain important customers, .all in the interests of good...
...even with these advantages, some students admitted that their primary reason for resisting an expected move was personal opinion. "Dunster is not a nice House," said one complainant. "I don't like its location, I don't like the people in it and I don't like the people...
...student government organizations. The primary cause of the boycott reportedly was "bum food"--more specifically "dried up hamburgers." Upwards of 350 residents in Baker House deserted their regular dining room in favor of the allegedly more tasty food in nearby Walker House, where the hamburgers were said to be "nice and juicy...