Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...product of an interior monologue just like that. And it must be conceded that Uris, who once publicly pronounced himself "the most outstanding U.S. writer of today," has succeeded astonishingly in his aim: into this big bad book he has packed away every conceivable stock figure, from the nice Russian officer (Igor) trapped by the system, to the beautiful whore (Hilde) who reforms and then softens the hard heart of the dashing American pilot (Scott, what else...
...cannot imagine how pleasant it is to read a nice story about Egypt once in a while. For years I have hunted for reports of the kind you have written about the Aswan...
Northern Triangle. But the council, while keeping grandeur in mind, wants more than a nice street for inaugural parades. Pennsylvania Avenue is the hypotenuse of two triangles. One, bounded on the south by the Mall, is composed of existing federal buildings -the Department of Justice, the Post Office and Department of Commerce. The council now proposes to finish the northern triangle south of G Street, presently a junky commercial slum. The most striking feature would be a daring mezzanine that carries pedestrians over traffic. Lifting strollers over cars, it would bring people into shops, theaters, hotels and restaurants woven around...
...board I sat on rang me up," complains one top British industrialist, "and told me, 'We're thinking of putting up so-and-so.' I asked if he knew anything about the business. The answer was 'No, but he's an awfully nice chap and married to so-and-so, you know...
...represents that hoary old horror, Boris Karloff, as an East European vampire who carries somebody's head around in a canvas sack, and one dark night, while everybody is sleeping, tears the throat out of his four-year-old grandson. Silly stuff, of course, but it's nice to know that a monster emeritus can somehow manage to eeeeeeeeek out a living...