Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because they were too hastily built. Meanwhile the Red guerrillas, who were supposed to be starving in the no man's land outside the hamlets, managed to live well enough off the land. Henceforth, the plan is to see that all existing villages are really defensible and more pleasant to live in, with new schools and dispensaries...
Gentlemen's Disagreement. In Paris, Ball also got a sympathetic reception, a pleasant change for a U.S. envoy these days. France last year exported to the Soviet bloc goods worth only about $266 million; Russian barter proposals, involving a swap of Soviet coal and oil for heavy industrial goods, are highly unattractive since France can sell its own coal and oil inside the Common Market. Besides, Charles de Gaulle believes that trading with the Soviets is a dirty business (although he seems willing to trade with Red China) and recently denied an export license to a leading French steel...
...University plans radical changes in the physical structure of the Harvard Union to make meals more pleasant and efficient for freshmen, C. Graham Hurlburt, Jr., director of the dining hall department, said yesterday...
...drizzle that came down throughout the first half did not seem to dappen competitive spirits, but it did hamper ball handling. For a pleasant change, it was not Harvard that suffered from fumblitis, however. On several important occasions Princeton killed its own motion with bobbles, usually committed on the snap. The Crimson, which has suffered chronic difficulty in holding the ball, fumbled but once in the half, and on that occasion Harvard recovered...
...national precedent by allowing girls to visit boys' rooms for what now amounts to 35 hours weekly. Last month Emily Post would have said, "I told you so." Dean John U. Monro, "badly shaken up recently by some severe violations," declared that "what was once considered a pleasant privilege has now come to be considered a license to use the college rooms for wild parties or for sexual intercourse...