Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King George VI flew to North Africa last week to review victorious Allied troops and seamen. He did a thorough, workmanlike, pleasant job. He reviewed British troops, troops of the U.S. Fifth Army. He ate lunch with U.S. officers, joked, laughed, praised the food. He visited battlefields, British and American cemeteries, hospitals, warships, airfields. He attended church at a naval chapel, talked with sailors, admirals, merchant mariners, nurses, wounded veterans, privates and generals. Everyone seemed pleased with him. He seemed pleased with everyone...
...pleasant change was inaugurated by FCC, which relaxed one of its most cherished regulations, authorized San Francisco station KYA to use point-to-point transmission to dispatch the longshoremen. Point-to-point is a signal beamed directly at persons or places. FCC has hitherto forbidden broadcasters to use it because it invades the territory of telegraph, telephone and other communication companies...
Just one more thought before I replace this quill to its rightful position on my insignia. Many thanks to the bride-to-be of Eusign Bailey for keeping him so occupied as to afford tue this very pleasant opportunity of giving literary instead of the usual verbal vent to my impressions. And also-should anyone take particular notice of smoke billowing from the Navy Office, please be assured that the Yeomen therein are not on fire. It is only due to the newly arrived son of Lt. (jg) Kauder who must have been sent with the compliments of the White...
...world's No. 1 Baptist Churchman traveled with pleasant English briskness through the South last week, reminding the 11,000,000 U.S. members of the church that its interests and their obligations are worldwide...
...visit was an eloquent demonstration of a fact which the War Manpower Commission is just now learning the hard way: men & women do not respond according to the slide rule. The Duke saw pleasant surroundings: red frame houses, a neat canvas mess tent, a medical clinic, shower baths, even a jukebox. ("What's that?" demanded Windsor, "a stove...