Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...German universities, he wrote to physicists who he thought might be in danger of persecution and invited them to Copenhagen. Many came, and whenever any of them arrived, Bohr always made certain that he or one of his colleagues was at the railroad station to welcome them to his pleasant refuge...
...gods; the Sioux passed around the calumet to seal the peace; 16th century Frenchman Jean Nicot (whose name is immortalized in the word nicotine) promoted pipe smoking as a sure cure for ulcers; and 19th century authors rhapsodized like Bulwer-Lytton: "A pipe, it is a great soother, a pleasant comforter. Blue devils fly before its honest breath. It ripens the brain, it opens the heart, and the man who smokes thinks like a Samaritan...
...language barrier is more likely ultimately to harm the scientist than it is the humanist; for while the scientist can dip into literature, criticism, and history if he is so inclined, the classicist cannot ruminate for a pleasant evening over the latest volume on automorphic functions, even were he so inclined. If the scientist cannot make contact about science with humanists, he faces the prospect of mumbling to himself about those things to which he has devoted his best energies and talents...
...subject with enveloping background, and also interweaves various techniques: for example he will, sketch an imprecise background and subject base of splashy color and etch or pen his subject into it. Although there is a slight tendency for technique to overshadow insight, Mr. DeShong's production is certainly most pleasant...
...base are not so cocky any more. In a month Guantanamo has been transformed from a post guarded by a thin contingent of marines into a front-line fort manned by thousands of combat-ready troops facing the 10,000 militiamen Castro has outside. It is not a particularly pleasant duty. The shrapnel-proof vests the marines wear are hot; they call Cuba's tiny, biting insects "flying teeth," and they already have a marine nickname for the militiamen opposite-"Ruben the Cuban." The marines have no special animosity toward Castro's troops, but they are honed...