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Word: nicest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even the nicest of checkers have to stick to their guns when it comes to enforcing interhouse rules. House residents frequently laud their own checkers for keeping lines short by turning away diners from the Union and other houses...

Author: By Deborah Wexler, | Title: Checking You In | 4/4/1992 | See Source »

After dreading it all year, we arrived in September and moved into one of the nicest rooms on campus. Make no mistake--Cabot has amazing rooms. What other sophomores live in a duplex with two bathrooms and five skylights? And for the first few months, things were looking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lotteries Past: How to Survive the Anxiety | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...weeks before the Long Island bloodletting. "Obviously, it's worth spending all the money we do on screening and training, because we nixed John right away," says Brian Church, an official at OCS. "He was a job-jumper. He wasn't an attractive job applicant. That's probably the nicest way of putting it." Moreover, Padilla was not licensed to carry a firearm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Thugs in Uniform | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...with C&S/Sovran, is about to change its name to NationsBank. Stop! Wasteful! Think of all those signs that need to be redone, all that stationery, all those forms. It's a huge undertaking, and for what? Far better simply to change the name to the Nation's Cutest, Nicest Bank . . . NCNB. This will save millions of dollars, and may even fool some folks into thinking NCNB, with its Marine Corps culture, is nice and cute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Angles Let's Get Moving! | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

About the nicest thing that can be said about Kennedy's record on Vietnam was that--when he wasn't being a full-blown hawk--he was timid as the war grew, indecisive, and left the details to others (some of those others, like Ambassador Frederick "Fritz" Nolting in Saigon, were blind and inept; some, like McNamara, were too clever for anyone's good...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: Stoned: JFK's Revision of the '60s | 1/15/1992 | See Source »

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