Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drugs like aspirin raise the "pain threshold"-i.e., the point where sensations, often pleasant ones, ring the alarm of pain. An affectionate pat becomes a painful slap, for instance, if the patter pats hard enough. A person who has been
...Luck of the Irish (20th Century-Fox) burdens a pleasant little comedy with a forbiddingly sticky title. The movie is just about as sham as most shamrock tales, but, with one exception, it is presented with taste and ingenuity. The exception: sequences taking place in Ireland are smeared with a green tint that displays the world as through a shower curtain...
This is all very pleasant reading, to be sure. But what Mr. Danzig and most of his confreres apparently did not take into account was the fact that this was a real dyed-in-the-wool upset. It was not, as some would have it, the first exhibition of a superb, polished, brutal machine, squashing an inferior opponent. It was an example of what weeks of bruising work can do for blocking and tackling and a man's physical condition; it was an example of what is usually defined as "being up for a game...
Stephen Beasley Linnard Penrose Jr.,† 40, is an ex-Sunday-school teacher and an active Congregationalist. Last May he was made a lay preacher by the Mt. Pleasant Congregational Church (Washington, D.C.), but he is the first of A.U.B.'s four presidents not trained for the ministry.. Between Dodge and Penrose, there is another and more striking difference: Penrose is outspokenly pro-Arab. Resigning as a special adviser to Defense Secretary Forrestal last May, Penrose denounced U.S. recognition of the State of Israel in a letter to the New York Times...
...Life. Rachel is content to examine a small domestic situation of no conceivable importance to citizenship classes, and to suggest the hard, lonesome beauty of the frontier and the way life was lived there. In other words, it is a better piece of history than most. There is pleasant work by Miss Young and Mr. Mitchum, and a skillful, comic, notably engaging performance by William Holden...