Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roger Stone was interned with 21 other newsmen in a dingy Cairo hotel called the Nile, where life, as he put it, "was a game of Stalag 17." In Beirut, Lee Griggs, reinforced by James Wilde from our Paris bureau, was still able to work, but things were hardly pleasant. In the street, Griggs met an Arab acquaintance walking with a group of other Arabs. The man sidled up to him, mumbling, "I have to do this or my friends won't respect me," and spat in Griggs's face...
Myers' proposal was greeted warmly by San Francisco's Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph McGucken. "Do you want me to register a look of pleasant surprise?" he smilingly asked a press conference. Some Protestants and other Episcopalians were not so enthusiastic. Michigan's Episcopal Bishop Richard Emrich, a convinced ecumenist himself, warned that "one of the great facts of the world is not that you desire unity but that there are real differences of belief." One such difference was pointed out by the Rev. Carl Howie of San Francisco's Calvary Presbyterian Church: "In a large segment...
...Pleasant Tension. The temporary trainees are generally enthusiastic about basic training-perhaps because their "army" life is uncommonly pleasant. They do get lectures on the organization of the Self-Defense Force; they also get a minimum of marching and exercise with wooden bayonets. Their drill instructors are completely out of character. "We have to be sweet to these people," complained one sergeant. "After all, they're only civilians...
...wonderful to be in a military establishment," says a young graduate of the First Engineer Brigade. "I put on the military uniform, cap and boots for the first time in my life, and right away I felt a pleasant tension within myself." Says another: "The importance of being constantly polite and alert is easy to understand, but so hard to practice. That is one vital lesson I have learned." Such comments are particularly convincing to Japanese executives. To them, Taiken Nyutai training, brief as it is, seems sorely needed. "Japanese youth today," says one, "look like bamboo without a joint...
...when Lyndon tucks himself in to sleep: "The extra pillows are cast aside, the great head sinks back, the arms are sometimes folded across the top of the sheet; after a few sighs, his mind wanders away from crises and commitments to the pleasant task of re-creating happy scenes at the ranch or on the lake; he remembers old friends . . . they all flow together in a slowly swirling series of thoughts which fade at the first soft snore...