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...held back and didn't say anything because it has never been the policy of this appear to campaign for faster swimmers, shorter pools, or nicer Yalies...
...trouble is that such expressions as "depression" and "recession" have become bad words, particularly among politicians, and are never to be used if a nicer word can be found. Thus, a whole new vocabulary has evolved. In the new jargon, a recession can be a "rolling readjustment," a "correction," a "slippage," an "easing," a "mild dip," a "downswing," a "normal adjustment," a "leveling off," a "slight downturn," a "lull," a "return to normalcy" or a "thingumajig." These euphemisms, of course, also defy definition. What, for instance, is a "return to normalcy," when for decades no one has known what economic...
Them (Warner) is about giant, man-eating ants. Explains one Warner man: "These ants are murderous bastards. When they grow eight feet tall, they gotta eat, and what's nicer than people...
...federal D.A. filed suit to seize and condemn 1,100 pills stocked by the McDonald Prescription Laboratories, Inc., which advertised that the product would temporarily relieve "physical strain...nervous tension, excessive alcoholism, loss of sleep...laziness," and would also make the user "feel good and look better and nicer...
...McCarthy is here tonight [he wasn't]-with his food taster ... I first met the President ten years ago in North Africa, where he was a general. He had some authority then . . ." Said Guest of Honor Eisenhower, just before his exit: "I can't remember having a nicer time than I have had this evening...