Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seventh Army, with French units on the right, hit the south flank from Saarbrikken to Haguenau. Thus assaulted on three sides, the German First and Seventh Armies began a scramble to get across the Rhine. Allied tactical airplanes swarmed down on the crowded roads and resumed their familiar, pleasant pastime of smashing enemy transport. Some Germans clung to Siegfried Line defenses on the south flank; the longer they fought there, the more they were menaced from the rear...
...lunch was pleasant and friendly. Larry Whipp glowed with the news that his passport was ready for a holiday trip to the U.S. At 4 p.m. the organist put his grey soft hat on his balding head, picked up his neatly rolled umbrella and walked out into Auteuil's gloomy Sunday twilight. No one has seen hide nor hair of him since...
Except for other brief tenures as lecturer, Bancroft held only one other notable job, as librarian of the State Department from 1888 to 1892. A bachelor, he joined Washington's old, exclusive Metropolitan Club in 1891. A pleasant but solemn man, he was known to fellow members as a "very retiring and quiet sort." Historians respect his excellent studies of the South (Slave-Trading in the Old South, The Negro in Politics...
...Ensigns, SC, portend something to those who know. We've also noticed a few wistful glances on Archie Aiken's face recently; could it be that he also is planning to surprise us with something hitherto unheard of in his rigorous life? All in all the prospects look so pleasant all the way from the banks of the Passaic to the shores of Oakland that all we can do now is to wait until the eighteenth for the happy boys, happy stories, and new acquisitions to roll back into Boston
...Approval (Gainsborough-English Films), an English comedy starring Beatrice Lillie, may or may not win general U.S. approval. It is pleasant at all times, and very funny in spots, but nine-tenths of it is enjoyable in proportion to your pleasure in the cliches of drawing-room dialogue, setting, character, gesture and costume of a departed...