Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swelling synthetic rubber production lulled many a U.S. citizen into the pleasant belief that the rubber-tired nation had rolled safely past the crisis point (TIME, Oct. 18). Last week, OPA's Tire Ration Chief, Sparks Bonnett, jolted them as roughly as a blowout on a curve. Said he: the vise-tight pinch in tires is just beginning...
Because they are the first of their specie to take up the slide rule at this school in defense of the hyperbolic curve, because they are the first waves to appear here other than on an oscilloscope, and because the task of interviewing them promised to be most pleasant one, I managed to corral all four WAVES the other day in Pierce Study Hall, where, after all military courtesies were dispensed with, they volunteered some very pertinent reactions to the Radar School and to its student body...
Like Oklahoma!, it spurns ready-made formulas, but where Oklahoma! took the smooth, pleasant lowroad...
...remember my basic training with a squad that contained seven fathers and me. During ten minute breaks I had to enthuse over baby pictures and listen to the latest report on what junior said. One daddy with four children kept going through the tough infantry course by imagining how pleasant it would be if he only had his kids along to help him--one to carry his rifle, another his canteen, the third his pipe, and the fourth his slippers...
...mentioned "the galaxy of pinups and other divertissements demanded by the armed forces." Another: "Soldiers and sailors have been writing us . . . telling us what store they set by their precious copies of this much-thumbed and well-regarded magazine." A third was eloquent about "the boys" who want "pleasant things to think of, and to look at. ... They want to think of girls and gaiety and good times. . . . They want to be reminded of all the pretty, pleasant, soft and gentle aspects of the life they've left behind...