Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...primitive idea that making likenesses of people gives the maker power over them. "If I have a boy friend who has been nasty to me," says Marisol, "I will make a sculpture of him-maybe as a duck. But I don't do that to those who are nice...
...Pretty Nice." They were happy talking about their futures. Some, like Marine, know the jobs they want to train for. "I like to take care of little kids," she said. She will probably be trained to work in a nursery. Carmen Velezi, 16, a tiny girl with long black hair, comes from Newark, N.J., and can talk quite intelligently-but only in Spanish. She hopes to learn English well enough to get a job as a secretary or a beautician. Paulette Prentice of Pittsburgh managed to finish high school but couldn't hold even menial jobs...
Thus, in his opening effort, Lindsay seemed to be falling for that old and not necessarily true cliché about how New York-is-a-nice-place-to-visit-but-I-wouldn't-want-to-live-there. Fact is, more than 8,000,000 people do live there, and most are proud...
...supporting the party ticket in 1960 could have been quite easily accomplished in party caucus. Rayburn chose instead to enlarge the Committee, a move which required vote of the full House--including Republicans--and therefore brought on a long, bitter fight, apparently because of sentiment (purges aren't nice), and some kind of scruple of Rayburn's about the precedent set when Powell was not purged in 1956. (Clark lists dozens of precedents in favor of purge...
Biff pulled out the card and showed it to the Chief, who silently took it and examined it carefully. "Nice work Bundie...