Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCormick might have added: of all the crowds which strolled Fifth Avenue to show their finery in pleasant idleness, she was probably alone in her reflections. The opulent look of a million people had sprung not only from a system but from a state of mind-the state of mind which took for granted everyone's place in the Easter Parade...
After Frankie's mother died in 1916, father was married to Amelia Kien. Times were better. The family moved into a better house and Frankie led a pleasant life. His stepmother and sister Nora were devoted to him. He swam in Lake Washington, tinkered with a $10 motorcycle which he could never make run, worked at a few after-school jobs. The most disagreeable of these was cleaning out a horse stall under a store on Rainier Street; Frankie was never much at manual work. His ambition, as he was achieving social success at Franklin High...
Withal, it's a pleasant field that virtually assures plenty of personal attention and respectable marks...
Holy Cross left fielder Bob Dittmeyer had a very pleasant afternoon yesterday. Not a single ball came his way all day and he got two hits to boot. Meanwhile, the Crusaders thumped the visiting Harvard nine...
...Command Decision" as a film is the way it handles war fought on the executive level. The screen is filled with maps, charts, tables of plane losses, and movies-within-movies of the latest German jet-fighters. The Generals push their map-pins and calculate their losses with a pleasant detachment from reality, unfortunately near the conventional idea of all military command. This was not true of the play; it is not characteristic of all films. "Paisan," which showed just how good war movies could be, had a command decision too, in an episode involved with guerrilla warfare...