Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plus four, Pfc. Rizzitello got a series of pleasant surprises. A Fort Dix clerk had figured Rizzitello's discharge credits under the Army's scoring plan announced last week. Infantryman Rizzitello had been in the Army 56 months-that was 56 points; he had been overseas 32 months-that was 32 more; he had 40 points for his battle stars and decorations. He had a total of 128 points and he had won discharge from the service...
...Clock is a pleasant, well-told romance rather than the great, true picture it might have been; but few films in recent years have managed so movingly to combine first-grade truth with second-grade fiction...
...pleasant things about working at TIME these days is to read so many friendly letters that come to us from servicemen and civilians in strange places all over the globe-and perhaps this week you might like to look over our shoulder at some random pieces from TIME'S overseas mail bag-like the letter you have just read from Captain Jack Tucker of the U.S. Infantry...
Patients v. Doctors. Veterans' hospitals are always clean, but they are rarely pleasant places. Typical is the tuberculosis hospital at Rutland Heights, Mass., housed in a red-brick and stucco group of buildings at a lonely crossroads some 13 miles north of Worcester.* The morale of the 446 patients, 16 doctors and two dentists is decidedly...
...depends too heavily on the limited charms of a brogue, a bustle and a charade-like servant's toddle; on the other, as if by weary obligation, she sometimes lets her face become MGM's official Etruscan mask. Between these hazards, however, she walks a wide and pleasant road, with evident delight and considerable power to communicate it. Some of her love scenes, especially, are worthy of a much better film...