Word: pleasant
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Once a Hudson River whaling port and a headquarters for George Washington's colonial army, steep-sloping, tree-shaded Newburgh (pop. 31,000) has long been a shopping center for the green and pleasant fruit farms that prosper in the rolling hills of Orange County. Since World War II, most of the farms have been serviced by migrant workers, mostly Negroes from the Deep South, who drift from harvest to harvest during the long summer. Inevitably, many migrants have settled in Newburgh; since 1950 the number of Negro residents has risen 151%, even though the city's overall...
...script of his Broadway and Hollywood hit, A Raisin in the Sun, Miami-born Poitier has moved into a previously all-white exurban area of New York's Westchester County. Ensconced with his wife and four daughters in a newly purchased twelve-room Tudor house in Mount Pleasant, Poitier was enjoying a warm reception from virtually all of his neighbors...
...teen-age mystique, has one of the summer's fastest-moving single records. Songstress Margret (she has dropped her last name professionally) is that rarity in the record field: a girl singer who can really make a pop song pop. In a pulsating, slightly nasalized voice, pleasant but still more callow than mellow, she bleats across the land a sugary lament called / Just Don't Understand...
...Summer Players (or, at least most of them) have learned how to be light. Misalliance is a more than pleasant evening, and an excellent antidote to the beastly heat...
...morning broke each workday last week over the pleasant St. Louis suburb of University City, an impish-looking, tire-waisted man gingerly eased himself into a tub of steaming hot water and submerged right up to his jug-handle ears. For most men, the solitary ritual of the tub means a chance to escape for a while from the cares and worries of the world outside-but not for William Henry Mauldin, editorial cartoonist of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In Mauldin's cauldron, the heat creates light-in the form of inspiration for his drawing board. The water...