Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possessing her completely," which in successive weeks comes to mean-in-turn-understanding her, controlling her sexually, paying her as he would a prostitute, trying to shame her, and trying to marry her. But her answers to his endless interrogations prove noncommittal, her sexual contact with him (though pleasant) strangely incomplete. She uses his money to support another lover (Luciani) and confesses the fact freely; and refuses to marry him. Entirely defeated, Dino drives his car into a tree in an effort at suicide, fails, and regains consciousness placidly supposing his problem settled because he no longer loves Cecilia...
There was a pleasant surprise in store for President Kennedy. Landing at West Palm Beach for an Easter vacation, he spied his father awaiting him in a car. It was the first time that Joseph P. Kennedy had been seen so publicly since suffering a stroke last December. Slowly, Old Joe raised his left arm in greeting. The President reached into the car, affectionately clasped his father's hand. Then he slipped behind the steering wheel, drove off for ten days of Florida relaxation-and reflection...
...local boys are batting at a .250 clip, and if they can solve the problems poised by Cornell, this afternoon should be pleasant, if a bit cold...
Biff had little time to consider discoveries, for at once he that someone had been standing him--for how long he did not He glanced up quickly and eyes of a tall, distinguished- man with a pleasant smile forward his hand...
Ruddigore, as presented by the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players, is a very pleasant evening. If Mr. Philip Alston Stone, the director, has chosen to emphasize the more trivial aspects of an operetta at once both trifling and consequential (its plot, that is to say, is ridiculous; its music divine), no one can blame him--for he often makes the foolishness seem funny, a considerable accomplishment...