Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said that in my book Lincoln the President could not have seen from his window something or other I say that he saw ((NATION, July 20)). I suspect that neither Ron nor Hugh knows that Lincoln's office was on the southeast corner of the second floor, with a nice view of sunrise, sunset, the Potomac and the Confederacy. The current, ill-fated Oval Office was built...
...Marx, the first great theoretician of the game and the main reason why so many modern lapta stars have been nicknamed Lefty. Marx and Engels introduced the dialectical theory of lapta: the pitchers are always ahead of the hitters, and vice versa. Marx's classic one-liner about lapta, "Nice right-wing deviationists finish last," ranks with Lenin's famous admonition about the Russian psyche: "Anyone who wishes to understand the Russian soul had better learn lapta...
...have one," she said in an interview with the New York Times. Ordinary Western- style dating had seemed out of the question in Pakistan. "For me, as leader of a Muslim party, it would just not do," she said. After meeting Zardari, she decided that he was "nice and had a sense of humor and seemed to be a tolerant person ((who)) could handle having a wife who had an independent career of her own." The wedding will probably not take place until winter, by which time her followers -- and Benazir -- should have grown accustomed to the idea...
...Louvre to a good Eakins, a vigorous Mary Cassatt of boaters feeding ducks, and a set of admirable monotypes by Maurice Prendergast. There is also some very minor work by famous names (Homer, Martin Johnson Heade, John Frederick Kensett) and a plethora of those 1890s contre-jour pictures of nice Boston girls in flowing chiffon scarves -- genteel provincial salon painting that has been revived as a market craze for investors now that the supply of Childe Hassams and the like is running...
Long ago, Leo Durocher said that nice guys finish last. Baseball players are finally taking his advice. Pitchers who play a little chin music no longer receive the benefit of the doubt. Throwing the high hard stuff inside is tantamount to a declaration of war, and retaliation by the batter follows shortly...