Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsmen knew that another prospect was not so pleasant. The whole military philosophy of fighting the slippery, lightly equipped Jap had to be rewritten. And Uncle Joe had all the notes for the new text, if only he could make other soldiers listen...
...atmosphere in the Drones' Club was thickly postprandial, a pleasant miasma of tobacco smoke, port, fizz water splashing into amber whiskey, just as Old Plum-Pelham Grenville (P. G.) Wodehouse to you-had often described...
They are Copenhagen and Jazz Me Blues, Milenberg Joys and Sugar Foot Stomp; a pleasant new tune (Falling Star) which shines brightly in the mellow orbit of Songstress Connie Boswell; spirituals from the Hall Johnson Negro Choir; a jitterbug jam session by instrumentalists Benny Goodman, Harry James, Gene Krupa and others...
Suddenly the rippling, six weeks old muscles tensed--Vag stiffened, his eyes bulged. "Wha ... wha ... what!!!" he stammered, a look of horrified amazement wringing his face. He lunged for the paper, oblivious of the soup in his path and the wrath of its owner who could imagine even more pleasant things that delicious minestrone in his lap. But the gushing curses faded into an incredulous stare. The Vagabond was breathing heavily--"inhale, exhale." "It's unfair," he murmured, the paper already a twisted shred. "It's inhuman," he howled, glaring with bloodshot eyes at his awestruck companion...
...showing made by Tom "T. T." White, who has been a reliable winner all year, and Bob Chase, was expected, but John Shattuck's fourth in the shot was a pleasant surprise. Joe Kane, of Penn, and Herb Hobler of Princeton, who were supposed to take over the Javelin throwing, were both absent, so "Herky" Herskovits and Bob Chase stepped in to pick up four invaluable points for the home forces...