Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first quarter belonged to Amherst, but two nice saves by starting goalie John Axten and the vigorous Crimson defense kept the Lord Jeffs off the scoreboard...
...they who have been in office, in power at the time of, and in large measure presided over the onset both of the war in Vietnam and the violence in American cities. These things may not be our fault, but in a world not overmuch given to nice distinctions in such matters, they most surely must be judged our doing...
...measure of America's maturity, and it might help us in the eyes of the world." Judge Vaino Spencer, a Los Angeles municipal court judge who viewed the marriage both as a Negro and a woman, observed: "That two young, attractive, well-educated people, both from such nice families, should be able to marry today with their parents present is a very special thing. It shows a tremendous change in attitude on the part of people from both groups...
...lived in a castle and her father was a loving but stern king. Then her mother, like a beautiful young queen, suddenly died. All the jolly relatives disappeared. The nice servants left, and the new ones carried guns. Gradually she grew up, puzzled and estranged. The king turned into a distant ogre, the castle into a dungeon, and life into hell. Much later, no longer a princess but still a Little girl at the age of 37, she tried to remember what had happened. She wrote it all down in 35 days as a group of letters...
...literature nowadays, it is fashionable to joke raucously about death or use it as an existential symbol rather than write quietly and seriously about it. An Antique Man is an old-fashioned book. In this seemingly autobiographical first novel, the author solemnly chronicles the death of a nice man, cut down by cancer in his middle 50s. Unfortunately, the work falls considerably short of A Death in the Family, James Agee's classic in this genre...