Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chance. Republicans, of course, would disagree-and before November they would have a chance to voice their disagreement in the campaigns for 435 House seats, 39 Senate places and 35 governorships. It is increasingly fashionable to say that elections are decided mostly by personalities and local issues, that a pleasant smile is more important than a staunch philosophy, that a candidate's stand on sewer bonds outweighs his views on foreign policy. But for all President Kennedy's rosy description of the nation's state, the U.S. does face grave problems abroad and at home...
...Barn. Pekin, the home of Bird Farm Sausage, Bourbon Supreme and Olt's Duck Calls, was a pleasant place for boys. They played "stink base," "run, sheep, run," football and marbles, fished for crappies and perch in the river. The block on which the Dirksen house stood was rimmed with bushy maple trees, and Tom Dirksen recalls that "you could climb up in one tree and go all the way around the block without touching the ground, climbing from tree to tree." But Everett didn't go in too much for that sort of amusement. Says...
...both patients, cholesterol levels stayed even or went down during pleasant interviews. But the cholesterol shot up within an hour of stressful sessions...
...drenched life was all the more pleasant because the pace had slowed. To be sure, she still kept photographers busy-with profitable results. And the Ravello villa was still a crowded place: on the premises with Jackie and little Caroline were Jackie's sister Lee Radziwill, Lee's three-year-old son and two-year-old daughter, a dozen or so U.S. Secret Service agents, a score of Italian cops, and an ample household staff. At home Caroline played hostess to some of the village children-the daughters of a carpenter, a boatman, a laborer. None of them...
...Lurgat is currently working on a series of tapestries called Le Chant du Monde, mostly representing such contemporary horrors as La Grande Menace (fallout), Le Grand Charmer (worldwide charnel house) and La Fin de Tout (final destruction). Other sections of Lurgat's monumental looming have more pleasant themes: fishing, wine, the conquest of space, hunting and poetry...