Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nice old-fashioned word connoting scholarly inquiry with judgment...
Before the grand prize was handed out, there were several secondary awards, and one of them went to Sammy Davis Jr. "Where else could a nice Negro boy meet a nice Swedish girl and then have the whole family turn Jewish?" quipped Sammy, setting the tone for the 30th annual Father of the Year rites in Manhattan. And Robert M. Hutchins, 66, dubbed 1965 Father of the Year for his lifelong devotion to education, carried right on in the same vein. Accepting a standing ovation from the 1,200 guests, he thought he heard "derisive laughter in the background from...
...Once there was a man who had everything. His wife, therefore, was at a loss about what to get him for his birthday. So she consulted the attendant at a local gift emporium. "Why don't you give him a nice smipe?" the helpful fellow suggested. "We have a very fancy one made of embossed leather and brass." "The very thing!" cried the wife in delight, realizing that a smipe was the one thing her husband didn't have. Needless to say, the man was ecstatic over his present, and for a week he did nothing but play with...
...nice to be back home where I belong...
...family settlement of happy hunters dwelling in a cozy cave and rejoicing in their primal innocence. Ur, the twinkle-eyed patriarch, romped with the kiddies, celebrated his hunting prowess in ecstatic bursts of epic poetry. But Mrs. Ur wanted a better way of life, moved the family into a nice new house down near the well, got everybody started on farming, free enterprise, philosophy, house building, domestication of the wild dog, sickle manufacturing, and the long agony of getting along with God. All in the space of three years...