Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hughes is quite tall and thin," Shelton said later. "He appeared in good health, was very affable. He shook hands twice, very vigorously. He looks like the old pictures of him, but a little older. His hair was cut normally. He is certainly an interesting man. He was very pleasant and gracious for my help in setting up the meeting. He thanked Somoza for his hospitality. He said he was off on a business trip...
WHEN I was eight years old, seeing Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians kept me awake for a week, listening for that fatal creaking on the stairs. No one will lose any sleep over the current Kirkland House production, but a very pleasant evening of who-done-it melodrama awaits those up for some straight-forward escapism...
Princeton-educated and a mod dresser by Administration standards, Flanigan plays tennis, skis and swims, often with his attractive wife Brigid and their five children. At home in fashionable Spring Valley Park in northwest Washington, he is considered pleasant by some of his neighbors, and humorless, autocratic and rude by others. On the job he is thoroughly hard-nosed, very much Richard Nixon's no-nonsense subaltern...
...sexless singular pronouns. A Women's Liberation lexicographer who styles herself Varda One has come up with ve, vis and ver. Others have suggested singularizing they, their and them to te, ter and tern. Someone has invented co, cos, co, which takes a pleasant form in the coself construction, and another added her and him together and got herm, which ve pointed out with reprehensible etymology is "as in hermaphrodite...
...Short List, about a failed novelist who decides he must "have" a successful woman. He chokes with jealousy watching her work calmly with her peers, but he mistakes his tears for libido. Gleaming icicles of detail fall from the page. Sizing up the woman's pleasant study, the man thinks, "I wouldn't like it if my wife had a room like this." Like a weary warrior goddess, Lessing views the seduction step by monstrous step. The woman gives in out of pity for the lout. "The stupid cow, the slut," he concludes...