Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kasavubu figured it was time to bring his neighborly relations back to normal. His first step came at the African "summit" meeting at Accra, where he neatly buried the hatchet with such neighbors as Tanzania and the Sudan, which had also supported the rebels. Last week, after hours of "pleasant" conversation in Leopoldville, Brazzaville's Ganao succumbed to the Kasavubu treatment as well. The two Congos agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations and restore the permanent ferry service that had once linked their two capitals every half-hour...
August 3--Have spent a pleasant day in the village of B., about a 50 minute drive from Agboville. The agent and I made an inspection this morning. Signs of freshly cut brush, and men out working with machetes, were more evidence of the fact that the villages had been warned we were coming...
...most pleasant surprise of the season for Penn fans has been the performance of sophomore quarterback Pete Wisniewski. A second-stringer on last year's freshman team. Wisnieski has completed 29 passes this year for 318 vards. He has an excellent receiver in halfback Rick Owens, who has pulled down nearly 20 passes during the season...
...recalls. "Few things in life can be as satisfying as that." He handled day-to-day administration, oversaw personnel programs, supervised overseas logistics. He dined occasionally at the White House, was even asked to Bobby Kennedy's Hickory Hill, a rare honor for a Johnson man. A less pleasant task fell to him when he took over Peace Corps recruiting. He found the operation a mess, immediately fired 17 people...
Lake Taal is a pleasant all-day-picnic's drive from Manila. Taal's waters are clear and blue, and in its center rises a 984-ft.-high island, which has its own interior lake, Lake Bonbon. To tourists, Bonbon provides a particular thrill-a look into the eye of a giant killer. For the island in Taal is, in fact, the shell of a volcano, and Lake Bonbon its submerged core, the result of a mighty eruption in 1911 that killed 1,335 people. Since that holocaust, Taal had hardly bubbled out a smoke ring, and some...