Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hockey is one sport in which nice guys really do finish last - and for six out of the past seven years, last place in the National Hockey League has be longed to the Boston Bruins, a team of such pluckless pandas that they could not have thrown a scare into Goldi locks. This season, the Bruins have turned into terrors. They lead the league in fist flinging, stick swinging, penalties and scoring. Last week they won their third game in a row, humiliating the Chicago Black Hawks 7-2, to tie the De fending Champion Black Hawks for the N.H.L...
...NICE AND THE GOOD by Iris Murdoch. 378 pages. Viking...
...compliment to the mischievous skill of Iris Murdoch that her ten previous novels-notably Under the Net, The Unicorn and The Red and the Green-have kept critics guessing about the direction in which her talent might develop. The Nice and the Good may give them a sad clue, for the answer seems to be middle-age spread...
...kept expecting me to say something," says Gleason, "but I just sat there serenely puffing on a cigarette. When he finally got over the water, I just said, 'Nice shot.' It killed...
Cornell regained full strength, and on its first sortie both defensemen Bob Carr and Gurry fell down, but Diercks came up with a nice save...