Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he really needed their votes for the civil rights bill, President Johnson was downright deferential to Capitol Hill Republicans. But now that the measure has passed the Senate and seems certain of quick approval in the House, Johnson obviously figures that he no longer needs to be so nice. Last week he started pressuring the House to stay in session six days a week, at least through July 10, to act on a big pileup of legislation, in particular his anti-poverty bill...
Grabbing the Oars. In the midst of the scramble to get Sweden's Margaretha to the church on time this week, Scandinavia's royals had to act relaxed and be nice to Nikita Khrushchev, who descended with his family for an 18-day goodwill tour of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. There were moments of levity, such as the time when Khrushchev startled Swedish Premier Tage Erlander by grabbing the oars of a boat and rowing him nonstop across a 300-yd. lake. But all in all, Nikita was no great hit anywhere. He miffed the Danes right...
...Others worried that consumers might go on a spending binge, which could turn the orderly economic expansion into an "overheated boom" followed by an inevitable day of reckoning. Last week it became clear that consumers are indeed in creasing their spending, apparently just enough to give the economy a nice lift without producing too much heat...
...crowd at the Lima soccer game [June 5], I included, howled against the referee and not at the police. We are tired of being robbed of international games because of a tradition that Peruvians are "nice" fans and not fanatics as in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. Would not Yankee fans have done the same in an International World Series...
...these magazine articles, written on his return to Russia, Novelist Viktor Nekrasov said so many nice things about the U.S. and so many uncomplimentary things about his own country that he was denounced for "bourgeois objectivism" and threatened with expulsion from the Communist Party. The least controllable of the 16-man Russian delegation picked to visit the U.S., Nekrasov panicked the tour leader by always going off on little walks of his own. He marveled at Manhattan skyscrapers and abstract art, happily guzzled Coca-Cola, bought aspirin on the advice of TV commercials. In passing, Nekrasov takes a swipe...