Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Came First. The only known visitor to the kappa country is Patient No. 23 in an insane asylum near Tokyo, who claims to have lived for months in the land of the kappa. No. 23 found the kappa pleasant, if unpredictable people, with their traditions often the reverse of human customs. They believe, for example, that the first kappa was a woman, who could not abide living alone. God pitied her and, taking her brain, created a male companion. His only instructions to the new couple were to eat, multiply and live as expansively as possible...
...billowing fire raced through tall stands of spruce, pine, oak and birch, cut westward across the brow of thickly timbered Mackenzie Mountain until it reached the little fishing hamlet of Pleasant Bay. Some of the 250 villagers escaped along famed Cabot Trail. Fishing boats, summoned before communications were cut, saved the rest. But Pleasant Bay's homes and shops, a church and hospital were ashes...
Responsibility. Most newspapers reacted with disapproval that ranged from tepid to thunderous. But the weekly Morecambe (Lancashire) Visitor (circ. 17,500) summoned its readers to "rejoice greatly [over] the pleasant fact that only a handful of Jews bespoil the population of our borough! . . . Violence may be the only way to bring [Jews] to a sense of their responsibility to the country in which they live...
...these the Class Album is probably the most important, because it preserves for the graduate an attractive and condensed record of the accomplishments of his class and contains the pictures of old and cherished friends. It is his most concrete tie to the past, and the source of many pleasant hours of nostalgic reminiscence...
...Senate was set aside. President pro tem Arthur Vandenberg recognized "the ex-Senator from Missouri for five minutes." Said Harry Truman: "I sometimes get homesick for this seat. I spent what I think were the best ten years of my life in the Senate." It was a pleasant...