Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Presidents parted, Pompidou told newsmen: "I allowed myself a plaisanterie. I said [to Nixon] that this meeting had been more like conception than delivery. Fortunately, conception is usually more pleasant than delivery...
...Tory sportswriter? David Eisenhower, stepping up to bat with his first weekly column for the Philadelphia Bulletin, sounded a bit like one. "The rhetoric of change tingles the modern American," he noted, but baseball should look to its traditions. "Fans want a pleasant afternoon in a pleasant spot in the city, time to reminisce and," added David awkwardly but enthusiastically, "a rooting part in exhorting their players on to the legendary heights that came before." Hired by the Bulletin at an undisclosed salary, David, 25, will track the Phillies on tour and report other sports as well. This will give...
Former students of Mao described her yesterday as the "most concerned, the most pleasant and the most skilled teacher" they had ever...
...worst time is early morning. Lyndon woke earlier and earlier in those last years-I really didn't like it much. But as early as 6:30 we would be up, having his tea and my coffee at a little table beside the window. It was such a pleasant time together, such a good way to start...
...shift of emphasis from princess to prince. Other first-class productions that have been performed in Europe for the past 50 years have hinged on Princess Aurora while Prince Florimund never danced at all. In this production Nureyev's prince has half a dozen solos. They are uniformly pleasant-if unaccountably confined to traditional danse d'école figures and Nureyev executes them to glacéed perfection...