Word: nicest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secret Service was against going about in Seoul, but finally Ike gave in, and changed his schedule. Back in his rooms within an hour, he packed up, left a $20 tip for Suzy, Van Fleet's Korean maid (who said later that she still thinks Cardinal Spellman the nicest American), and said goodbye all around. At 8:01 p.m., just three days after his arrival, Ike's planes took off for Guam...
...nicest thing about "The Wonderful Country," besides Lea's own illustrations, is that it's all plot and takes around four hours to read. If you can judge westerns by the usual criteria of literary excellence, then the book's worst flaw is that the reader frequently doesn't know who is killing whom, when, where, and why. Of course this might make little difference to the affilcionado, but I'm one and I like to know what is going...
...Deal." On the Taft-Eisenhower promises to cut spending, he said: "You can't have low taxes and security." At Salt Lake City, he rode in a jolting buckboard escorted by 40 cowboys and Ute Indians, who later made him a chief. Said Chief Averell: "Nicest time I've had since becoming a candidate...
...fire in a field of poppies." Reminiscing about his youth, when women were "allus arter you," Uncle Silas tells the story of a landlady with a passion for making puddings. One day, chance dropped her in his lap, and "arter that I wur never in want for the nicest bit o' pudden in the world...
...second half of Quivering Earth. Jesse and Keeta wind up in a boom town, and in final chapters as lurid and contrived as the first are lyrical and artless, Jesse finds his long-lost children and the woman who bore them, while Keeta gets herself just about the nicest man in Florida. Its last part reads as though some publishing expert finally explained to Author Russ what it takes to get a book published these days...