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Word: nicely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many tries. On the base paths he drove Blue Jay pitchers nuts. Like Canseco, Henderson is hardly humble. "I'd say I'm the decade's best lead-off man," he declares. "If people feel I'm one of the best who ever played the game, that's nice to hear." Opposing players call Henderson a hot dog, and frustrated fans in Toronto bombarded him with frankfurters in left field to show their displeasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In The West: Play Baysball! | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...revolutionary discoveries alone. Important advances also occur as ingenious experimenters devise ever more clever methods for increasing the accuracy of their observations. The Nobel Prize in Physics this year celebrates the contributions of three scientists who have spent their careers elevating precision measurement to a high art. "It's nice to know that this type of work can be appreciated," said one of the recipients, distinguished Harvard University physicist Norman Ramsey. Upon hearing the news, Ramsey, an athletic 74-year-old who recently returned from a trek in Nepal, admits that he was startled. "Are you sure?" he asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prizes: Surprise, Triumph - and Controversy | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

October 5th's front page story on the Institute of Politics forum entitled, "Eyewitness ot a Massacre: Tales from Tiananmen Square," was a nice description of the evening's events but for one exception...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Mail | 10/20/1989 | See Source »

...going to have to put this game behind us," Reilly said. "A win would have been nice, but we can't help looking forward to Friday. That's our priority...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: UMass Outclasses W. Booters | 10/18/1989 | See Source »

...Twenty new federal judges would be nice," saidLecturer in Public Policy Mark A.R. Kleiman, "butit doesn't have anything to do with fighting thewar on drugs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Approves Drug Bill | 10/7/1989 | See Source »

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