Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teaching quick-witted Koreans was pleasant until the Japanese seized Manchuria (1931). Then the Japs dictated what should be taught, constantly suspected "dangerous thoughts." When one faculty member preached a chapel sermon on the exodus of the Israelites, the Japanese arrested him, charged him with preaching against them by parables. At last Dr. Underwood did not even dare visit Korean homes. Whenever he did, the Japanese police carted off his hosts to jail...
...squabbled with William S. Knudsen, took the quarrel to Ford for a decision. He won, but Knudsen left Ford shortly after for General Motors, where he took pleasant revenge by boosting Chevrolet sales past Ford...
...recruiters and I know all the excuses women can give for not joining the WAC. We know about the girl who doesn't want to leave home and family, the girl whose boy friend or husband doesn't want her to join, the girl who likes her pleasant job too well to leave it. ... We are acquainted with the girl who quite obviously is just afraid of getting her hands dirty, and the girl who would rather follow her husband around from camp to camp than get in the fight herself and help get him home sooner...
Thousands of other small, sharp vignettes of approaching action constituted the English scene. All through that scene threaded the sometimes tactless-tongued, sometimes careless, always curious U.S. soldier. The hedged lanes, the pleasant parks, the thatched pubs teemed with G.I. Joes...
Aside from the fun there is in putting out the paper, the competition furnishes an opportunity for men to become acquainted with the Deans in a method far more pleasant than the ordinary...