Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilson and De Gaulle exchanged polite toasts at lunch, Wilson praising De Gaulle as a man "who is not afraid of change," and De Gaulle saying, in effect: It's nice to see you, Harold, even if nothing comes of all this. The champagne was Veuve Clicquot 1959 which was Churchill's favorite, and it helped put George Brown in such a comradely mood that, as they rose from the table, he grabbed De Gaulle by the arm. The French gasped; it was comparable to tweaking the Queen's ear. But De Gaulle was unperturbed...
...Chutzpa-nerve; meshuga-crazy; goyim-gentiles; schmutzike-dirty; fineh menschen-nice people; fahrbhundjet-very, very lost; nahr-fool; zich austzeigen-show off; chochmes-jokes, wisecracks...
...become a source of irritation; the foul air that had come to be accepted as an inevitable part of city living has suddenly become intolerable. "Tomorrow morning when you get up," reads a recent magazine ad placed by New York's Citizens for Clean Air, Inc., "take a nice deep breath. It'll make you feel rotten." Indeed, as the adjoining color pages show, the U.S. city dweller had only to look at his skyline last week to see the startling and ominous inroads that smog has made...
Again the hero is a nice man caught up in a nasty business, a middle-aged British agent (James Mason) assigned to check out an official (Robert Flemyng) in the Foreign Office who has been anonymously denounced as a Russian spy. Same day investigation starts, subject is found dead. Police report suicide, Mason suspects murder. Suspicion leads down a corpse-strewn trail of betrayal that ends at the hero's own door. The dead man has been betrayed by his wife (Simone Signoret), a Russian agent. The wife in turn is betrayed by the spymaster (Maximilian Schell) who employs...
...victory of the student left over the Selective Service Board? It's unthinkable that someone who has been spoon-fed with the delusions and placebos of this system all his life is going to undergo some miraculous transformation and start believing in the revolution just because some nice students take away his deferment. Can we in all honesty expect him to act in any other than a hostile manner toward the Left? We must take into consideration that in a recent poll, the students of Harvard indicated that they wished to be exempted--meaning simply that they did not want...