Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Junior officer's beer bust Friday evening gave the weekend impetus right from the start. Few of us could locate and thank many of our hosts, but we all agree that we don't have enough pleasant gatherings like this. To the Junior officers we say thank you; may we meet together again...
Bomb-weary Berliners sat down to another dreary dinner. From radio loudspeakers came pleasant music, scheduled to be followed by a useful lecture on the extermination of rats. The lecture never came. Instead a tense voice clipped in: "Today an attempt was made on the life of the Führer with explosives...
...Radio Berlin, which occasionally reaches Chungking, recently stopped its boasting and has settled for nostalgic U.S. dance records and innocuous chit-chat by a pleasant female voice...
...writing to you because, unfortunately, I do not know the address of the gentleman who came to see me a short time ago, and with whom I had a pleasant conversation, to be used, I presume, as material for a story in your esteemed magazine [TIME July 3]. On that occasion, I became guilty of a forgetfulness which I want to correct with this letter...
...north, in a long thin funnel, white to greasy green in color, the storm poured through, with thunderous roar and a long trail of smoke like an express train. It hit Joetown, then Oakdale, then swept Pleasant Hill. Fifteen of the 25 houses toppled as if they had been stepped on. Stoves, mattresses and tables poured down onto Route 19. Porches and roofs, caught in the swirl, splashed in the debris of Pleasant Hill, and then the tornado ground on through West Virginia...