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Word: nicely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think that Gorbachev has something up hissleeve," said Eli Kazhdan '91, another formerrefusenik, "Premiers in Russia don't get theirpositions by being nice guys...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: 60,000 Protest Refusenik Policy In D.C. March | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...friend of mine is one of the Junior 12, and it was a big thing to him because his parents had promised him a Maserati if he made it," said new member J. Peter Wagner '88, "No one's promised me a Maserati, but it's still a nice thing...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Inductees Announced | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...SOMETHING NICE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Dec. 7, 1987 | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...something nice, we'll call you. No. If you can't say something nice, carry a big stick. Worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Dec. 7, 1987 | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

Those who have not yet discovered the work of Elizabeth Jolley might well start with this novel. For one thing, it is brief, deceptively simple, eccentric and entirely in keeping with the comic, macabre nature of her best fiction. And it is nice to know that there is more where this comes from. The Newspaper of Claremont Street is the eighth Jolley book, including six other novels and a collection of stories, to be released in the U.S. in the past three years. Prior to 1984, she was one of Australia's best-kept literary secrets. Now her international reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flowerings the Newspaper of Claremont Street | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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