Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nick of Time. In Point Pleasant, W.Va., despondent Victor Bradshaw tried to stab himself to death, got the knife part way in, fell down dead of a heart attack...
...cottage for him there, and Shanghai Bureau Chief William Gray has his eye on a small hotel on an island off Wusih in Lake Tai Hu, northwest of Shanghai. "Wusih," says Gray, "is a sort of Chinese Venice, where you travel mostly by motor houseboat, a top-heavy but pleasant craft with attendants who serve tea and Chinese chow at thoughtful intervals...
...Idaho's panhandle, 50 miles south of the Canadian border, lies Lake Pend Oreille (rhymes with yonder bay), shaped like a question mark. Three mountain ranges cradle the lake, 2,500 feet deep in places and a shade of blue to match. Everyone agreed that it was pleasant to look at, but no one got very much excited about the fishing there until two years ago. Then a local meat-market owner got the strike of his life: his reel screamed and he thought his line would snap. From Pend Oreille's cool water, after a few minutes...
...gazed at the excavations for the new library, where a pleasant little hill had been. He remembered walking up it countless times on the way to Warren House, in the days of compulsory exercise and English A themes. The place was changing, Vag thought, as he crossed Massachusetts Avenue. On the corner of Plympton Street, two fellows in crew cuts and seersucker jackets had just thrown their weekend bags into their Ford and were starting the engine. Suddenly Vag remembered it was Friday, and he was taking the two o'clock out to the Cape. He quickened his pace...
...Foot, Ford & Horseback. Teacher McKinney's four years at Waterloo had been pleasant, but never easy. Every morning she got up with the sun, drove her 1938 Ford over dirt roads to the schoolhouse and lit a fire in the old stove. When her 15 pupils arrived-some on foot, some on horseback and some, in muddy weather, on tractors-the room was warm and clean; by that time Miss McKinney had swept and dusted the oiled pine floor...