Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of Rogge's defense is not pleasant. In 287 abundantly documented pages, there is scarcely a smile, unless it be a smile of derision, aimed, for instance, at the loyalty board man who asked a 'Mr. X,' "Did you ever attend any social affairs with your wife--organizations or associations where . . . liberal views were discussed?" But a question like this one is difficult to smile at for long, when you consider that it was asked by representatives of the U.S. government (which apparently has found that "liberal views" work well at the polls) of a ship-yard worker...
Some of them recalled such a portent as Gromyko smiling at the U.N. Assembly's opening session. Others reported that Russian officers, after months of isolation, showed up at a U.S. Army cocktail party in Berlin and were pretty pleasant. France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman confirmed that U.S.-Russian talks had taken place-on the "corridor level...
...Pleasant Thoughts. International Business Machines Corp.'s spry old President Thomas J. Watson, whose favorite motto is "Think!", gave his stockholders something pleasant to think about: a 16% gain in profits, to $7.8 million. Caterpillar Tractor Co., cashing in on long-deferred roadbuilding, bulldozed its own net from $2.9 million to $4.7 million-a gain...
...Stillman is an institution devoted to the elimination of sleep. The daily routine starts at 6:30 a.m., when the sick student, comfortably clad in a pair of T-shaped cloth objects distinguishable only by a drawstring through the top of one, finds the pleasant mouth of the nurse pressed close to his ear. She is quietly calling his name. Outside to the east, the sky is still graying, but this does not bother the efficient nurse. She likes to Get Things Done. She takes to paticut's temperature with a wet mouth thermometer. He goes back to sleep...
...more pleasant things about Morgan is that he is unlike other radio comedians who seem to aim their programs at the category Life forgot--the no-brows. He eschews the Wilshire Boulevard school of humor, where in an ether buffoon sends a studio audience into unrestrained hysterics at the mere mention of a name such as "Wilshire Boulevard" of "La Brea tarpits." Nor does he open closet doors to the accompanyment of a eacophony of sound effects. If he is going to insult somebody he doesn't call him "baldy...