Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drowned in the giggles was any thought of happy George Allen's qualifications for the RFC job. He had proved a great capacity to crack jokes about himself, a pleasant candor about his own ambitions and finances. He had demonstrated that a good many companies-most of whom find it convenient to be on good terms with Washington-considered him a useful man to have on the payroll. But there was no hint that any of his many previous employers had ever dreamed of making him board chairman of a corporation- much less of a $10½ billion empire...
...Legal Mind. Among the 5,000 New York-Connecticut residents who would be evicted from their pleasant properties by the world capital were numerous lawyers, most of whom seemed busy last week hunting for a loophole. The whole idea of giving up U.S. soil for an international zone, they said hopefully, might be unconstitutional...
...good, ripe age of 43 and the presidency approach, Alemán has tempered, mellowed. When not campaigning, he spends his evenings quietly with political allies or at his spacious Mexico City home, listening to classical recordings with his pleasant wife and young daughter. Weekends, he is in summery Cuernavaca, golfing, visiting friends like Swedish Industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren (U.S. black-listed), gazing wryly at the neighboring home of Oppositionist Candidate and ex-Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla...
Paul and Erich found Informer Knopf in a Pankow beer garden. Later an eyewitness said, "They merely asked him to step outside, were quite pleasant about it too." Next day Knopf's battered body was found in a parking...
Outside, in the pleasant, leafy Paseo de la Reforma, clusters of public address horns rasped out the proceedings. Dark-suited politicos and tan-jacketed pistoleros (gunmen) listened intently while the party changed its name to Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.). The delegates plumped for votes for women, and did not laugh out loud when the outgoing president called for a "crusade against corruption." The climax came when Vicente Lombardo Toledano, famed, currently anti-American, pro-leftist labor leader, gave the nominating speech for Miguel Aleman as the party's presidential candidate in the July 7 elections. Lombardo Toledano denounced...