Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right answers to certain difficult problems, he said. "A Christian should be a guinea pig, and the Church is the laboratory." This is a gruesome policy, Stendahl admitted, especially for the layman who has muddled his way through complexities all week and comes to church to hear some nice, simple principles. "But principles are never practicable," he said...
...Reagan as a presidential possibility. But the first 100 days of his administration show confusion, ineptness, destructive programs, and a disregard for the welfare of the people. He and his advisers, wealthy reactionaries, have placed the dollar above human rights, offered nothing creative or constructive. If good looks, a nice smile and a mouthful of beautiful teeth are the requisites for the presidency, he has all the qualifications...
...city's Democratic machine, the papers had fallen into the habit of ignoring stories critical of him. When Gene Robb, a longtime Hearst executive in Washington, took over the chain's Times-Union in 1953, O'Connell had no reason to expect any change. Christened "Mr. Nice Guy U.S.A." by Albany staffers, Robb concentrated on the business side of the papers, succeeded in purchasing the Knickerbocker News from the Gannett chain...
...this, too, was concept, if you will--but concept founded on a rather childish view of world realities--founded also, I suspect, on a certain gratification of our self-esteem, insofar as it was so nice to see ourselves, high-mindedly devoted to the enthronement in international affairs of the principles of a law and orderly behavior, in contrast to the wicked powers of Europe, bent on intrigue, aggrandizement, and various other sorts of wickedness...
Obviously the logistics of the events in front of the Texas Book Depository do not make for nice reading. But Manchester, if he felt duty-bound to write a 647-page manuscript on four days in November, should have paid more than summary, melodramatic attention to this issue. Historians of the future, to whose efforts Manchester hoped to contribute, will undoubtedly be far more perplexed by the actual assassination than the random deployment of Kennedy family and friends in planning the President's funeral. Yet it is these arrangements--with the variety of emotions they evoked--that seem to intrigue...