Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third tried to lead Vicky away. Most of the leaflets were torn up. Within five minutes the police arrived, and Vicky tossed her remaining leaflets high in the air. Immediately, she was punched hard in the stomach by an elderly man. "That," she said, "was not very nice of you." Across the square, Andrew Papworth, also 24, and sporting a T shirt proclaiming END NATO...
...pupils to spot them. "Some of these kids learn not to question white people. They develop a kind of slave mentality and I want them to talk back." He winces when they are asked to describe their neighborhoods and respond with what they think is wanted: adjectives such as nice, clean and pretty, instead of more accurate words like ugly or broken down...
...surrounded by 400 birds, tanks of tropical fish, six dogs and a small chinchilla farm. The new mode of Jose's life is a little bewildering to members of his family, some of whom even think wistfully of the old days in Manhattan. "In a way it was nice to be poor," says his 18-year-old brother, George. "We could get so much fun out of a little dime...
Died. Henry Barnes, 61, New York City traffic commissioner since 1962, who mounted a scrappy, unrelenting campaign to unclog the streets; after a heart attack in his office. "You can't be a nice guy and solve traffic," Barnes liked to say. He railed against privileged double-parkers and street repairmen, created miles of one-way avenues in Manhattan, and set up one of the largest electronically controlled signal systems...
...going anyplace," he replies. A little further down the rubbed wood bar, a scotch drinker banters with the barmaid, asking how she likes the heat. "Most of the time it's not too bad," she says tossing her bobbed head. "I have a very nice apartment with a fan." The man looks at her pensively for a moment and then returns to his drink. The customary TV set is on, showing an old movie with two gray-haired men talking in a library. You can't hear what they are saying, for the voice is off, and a "Here Come...