Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figured everything to a split second, scorned the time-consuming safety of taking on extra fuel in the air, climbed as high as 30,000 ft. running away from head winds, got his F-100C Super Sabre jet to Oklahoma City with exactly one minute of fuel left. His nice calculations earned him the Bendix Trophy and a new Bendix record: 666.661 m.p.h. In second place, with 656.250 m.p.h. : Captain Robert A. Madden, a Korean veteran who spent 15 months as a PW. Although adverse winds edged them out of a supersonic trip, all six contestants, all flying North American...
...Fred Hutchinson moved him from right field to first base early this season, he spoke not a word of complaint. He figures he is still nimble enough on his feet, but he knows, too, that sooner or later every man slows down. "Besides," says he, "first base is a nice place to visit with people." He chats amiably with opposing runners, horns in on their conversations with their coaches. "You get more company there than in the outfield...
...customer, admen are turning increasingly to sotto voce selling: the eye-catching picture, the self-deprecating cartoon, the chuckle. Says one character: "I was a 99-lb. weakling. Then I bought a Carrier Room Air Conditioner. I'm still a 99-lb. weakling but, boy, is my bedroom nice and cool!" In Atlanta a cartoon colonel declares: "I'd even go North for Southern Bread...
Says Producer Lancaster: "We've reached the point now where we've stopped thinking about money. Our success has done a nice thing for us. We have the bread and butter. It's been a healthy operation, and it doesn't matter if we have $250,000 or $2,500,000 in the bank. The thing from now on is the fun in moviemaking...
...breakfast. Besides birds and cats, Claude's posh villa is equipped with an English butler, an Iberian cutthroat (Francis Lederer), a bevy of nubile females who soothe his cares with piano solos and poetry readings. He also employs Smuggler Ray Milland, "who is a criminal too, but a nice one, since he is in the racket only for excitement, and disapproves of murder and dope addiction...