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Word: pleasant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faiman is a stocky, baldish, well-dressed man with a neat brown mustache and a look of respectability. He lives in an exclusive section of Dallas, drives a green Buick, has an attractive second wife. He has been supported in his pleasant position by panicky pregnant girls. Last week "Dr." Faiman was under a two-year prison sentence for selling "abortion paste" in interstate commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of the Violet Paste | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...could be pleasant and witty at parties; he could also be arrogant. When the opera hired him, he demanded 2,700 florins a night (about $230)-twice as much as any other conductor. Nightly, he was seen at cafés-a, scowling giant (6 ft. 6 in.) who shouted at waiters, flirted with young women, or just sat in a corner, thumping out jazz on the café piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gamble in Budapest | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Luck of the Irish. A pleasant little comedy that rises above its title, with Cecil Kellaway, Anne Baxter, Tyrone Power (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...some time, the neighbors had been indignant over Frau Lehrte's activities. She lived in the southernmost part of Berlin's U.S. sector, on Landshuterstrasse, a pleasant street which runs across the fateful boundary between Berlin and the surrounding Soviet zone. Lately an increasing number of Russian officers had walked over the boundary to visit the widow Lehrte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Incident at the Widow Lehrte's | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Last week, retired to his pleasant Mary land farm, Entomologist Hyslop was ad mittedly a pro-insect man; his enemy had won him over. It was all in the record: 189 notebooks, his life work. In print, his Encyclopedia of Economic Insects, describing the life & times of 30,000 North American species, will fill 1,900 pages, from Abacarus hystrix (a mite) to Zygogramma exclamationis (a beetle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spokesman for the Enemy | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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