Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another result of the raids-part of a nationwide drive-was not so pleasant. One car salesman was grabbed by an OPAster and threatened with a "slapper" (a blackjack-like weapon of thick pieces of leather sewn together-see cut) because OPAsters thought he was trying to get away. He was not actually hit, and was later released. But OPA's new treat-'em-rough tactics, reminiscent of the notorious "prohibition officer" hoodlums of the dry era, were bound to make new enemies...
...used illegitimacy as a theme-generally for deep, racking sobs (The Sin of Madelon Claudet, To Each His Own), less frequently for somewhat embarrassed guffaws (The. Miracle of Morgan's Creek). Surprisingly, the French have contrived, in this tender, low-keyed picture, to use illegitimacy for a few pleasant, amoral chuckles...
...wooing Argentina, was not to be outdone. Said he: "... I am thinking of the objectives and ideals which have always motivated our peoples . . . impulses [which] have been in great part, as you say, Mr. Ambassador, profoundly Christian and profoundly human. ... I hope your stay in Washington will be thoroughly pleasant...
...truck ground to a halt on Rio's pleasant Rua Bartholomeu Mitre, children looked up from their play. After the workmen had unloaded the dark, moist sand into the street and gone away, the kids swarmed over the sandpile, pelting each other with sand and small pebbles...
...young ladies are nice to look at, and Patric Knowles, as the Duke Hope pretends to be, sings some pleasant songs. But only Hope and Schildkraut, as a villainous Spanish general, know how to put a really fine edge on all this sort of foolishness...