Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have blazed the trail of human dignity." Replying in kind, Vice President Hubert Humphrey likened Johnson to Franklin Roosevelt, House Speaker John McCormack toasted him as "a man bigger than life," and Chief Justice Earl Warren psalmed the joys of fellowship. "Behold," proclaimed Republican Warren, "how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell in unity...
Cambridge hangers-on this vacation woke each morning (usually around 10 a.m.) in pleasant anticipation of the breakfast waiting for them in the Leverett House dining hall. It was a humble meal, coffee, toast, butter, jam, peanut butter, and juice, but it was there from 9 to 11 a.m. and certainly preferable to the dry tongue a late riser must live with now that the dining halls are back on their regular schedules...
...Piston's pleasant little Divertimento, the nine performers gave a cheerful and accurate reading of the outer movements, and put considerable intensity into the lyrical middle movement. Hathaway conducted apparently without a clear understanding of the work. Melodic lines were submerged in the first two movements. The last was more convincing, even if slightly mechanical...
...otherwise pleasant and accurate account of my dance [Dec. 9], TIME reported that I supplied the New York Times with a list of those invited. Although it is true that the Times printed a somewhat incomplete and inaccurate guest list, this list was not obtained from me nor was it published with my knowledge or permission...
...spell take the visitor too firmly and his ambition wavers, his memory clouds. That, in Hawaii, is a pleasant affliction known as "Polynesian paralysis." But one thing that is most emphatically not suffering from paralysis in Hawaii is the tourist business. Since statehood and the jets arrived, tourism has taken off like a surfer riding one of the 25-ft. "Castle Break" curls at Makaha Beach. In 1960, there were 296,517 mainland visitors to the state. In 1966, there will be 700,000. The most conservative estimate predicts 1,000,000 visitors by 1970, the most optimistic...