Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anyone . . . try to survive and keep his family alive, to furnish a pleasant place to live with bits of this and that, to manage eggs from wrongly fed and badly housed chickens, to scrape and tan animal furs for family use, to wash and spin wool, with homemade soap and homemade spinning wheel, to finish the winter evenings by the light of a potato-lamp (with its improvised wick set in melted fat in a hollowed-out potato!). The effort is sure to leave him with the greatest indifference toward the "literature of despair...
Such tactics result in many photo-finishes, and Jake Cann, never resigned to them, habitually agonizes on the bench. Says he: "My greatest thrill comes when I hear the final whistle." This year, the thrills have been pleasant: 17 out of 18 final whistles have found N.Y.U. ahead...
Wednesday's 44 to 30 victory over the Quonset squad came as a pleasant surprise to Crimson rooters, who had been awed by the Fliers' imposing record and then badly scared when Gray sprained his ankle in last Tuesday's practice. But the Stahlmen apparently don't read the newspapers; undaunted by the fan-shaped backboards in the unfamiliar gym, they jumped to an early lead and were never headed...
Nevertheless, the Japanese, with 1,800 to 2,100 calories a day, were better off economically than many Europeans and most Asiatics. They expressed pleasant surprise at the fairness of the U.S. occupiers, supported (at least publicly) Allied prosecution of war criminals and gave lip service to democratic slogans. However, members of the Far Eastern Commission, returning to Washington last week, reported that Japanese liberals were still afraid of their militaristic countrymen; the liberals estimated that it would require 20 or 30 years of Allied occupation to bring real democracy to Japan...
Author Jessamyn West, who is of Indiana Quaker stock herself, has collected 14 of her pleasant, nostalgic short stories in one volume. All the yarns, based on material which echoed through the author's own childhood, are about the Birdwell family-who have the Devil's own time reconciling the ways of William Penn with the general cussedness of human nature...