Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everything. Who was all the shouting about? John Vliet (his mother's surname) Lindsay is certainly a most attractive politician. He is young-43. He is tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and handsome, with a pleasant smile and a rapid tongue. He comes from a proper Manhattan family-his father was an investment banker-and he went to the right schools: St. Paul's,Yale, and Yale Law. As a Navy lieutenant, he came out of World War II with five battle stars. He has a showcase family, including wife Mary, three daughters and a five-year...
...Loopholes. There was a time when the occasional Indian or African studying at Oxbridge or importing tea in London was nothing but a pleasant reminder of the many-splendored variety of the British Empire, and the exotic babble of Hindu and Jamaican dialects was merely a quaint phenomenon of sailors' families settled in remote Welsh seaports like Tiger Bay. Then, when a large number of dark-skinned Asians, Africans and West Indians began flocking to Britain in the early 1950s, the British at first consoled themselves with the thought that these tropical people had only come to earn...
There were other pleasant surprises for the Crimson. In the 880, John Ogden and Keith Chiappa held off a late challenge by Yale's Jon Lieff, to finish one-two. Ogden's time was 1:55.1, and Chiappa and Lieff were both clocked a tenth of a second slower...
Onerous Duties. Such extravagances have used up most of Cambodia's foreign exchange, driven living costs to an alltime high, and even scared away a Chinese team of economists invited from Peking to sort out Snookie's tangled accounts. Pnompenh-once a pleasant, easygoing capital-has become increasingly rundown. This fact recently led Snookie to broadcast a wild tirade of threats that he would personally fire everyone in the capital, from street sweepers to policemen, if the city did not shape up. Typically, no one was fired and Pnompenh remains as threadbare as ever. As government corruption accelerates...
Anonymous Losers. At suburban Bostons Milton Academy-long a prep feeder for Harvard-a pleasant boy whose three brothers, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather all had attended Harvard learned from Milton's dean that Harvard had "shot me down." In Chicago an attractive, intelligent girl learned that she had been rejected by Mount Holyoke. "I kept saying to myself I'm not going to cry,' " she recalls. "Then I went up to the library and cried. At exclusive North Shore Country Day School m nearby Winnetka, one of the school's brightest boys...