Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called for. We need to feel a touch of genuine desperation in this slum or of craziness in the behavior of its inhabitants. Some how the Duddy Kravitz ambience has been infused with the spirit of Walton's Mountain, and the result is a bland respectability−safe, pleasant, without reverberation...
...Game (though it was played both literally and physically in the shadow of the Yale Bowl), but it was a pleasant ending to a season marked by both accomplishment and frustration. The victory gave the booters a winning 4-3 Ivy League record and an overall record...
...Broadway," with gruff conviction, upping his chin in the right direction. He's pretty voluble on the whole, though, and assures me that this section of town is worth visiting because there is plenty to do here. He likes it almost as much as the open country. There's pleasant country in Ireland--he has seen it three times...
...Belmont and the rest scattered around the country (there is a secondary headquarters in San Marino, California.) In Belmont, the Society occupies three buildings--it owns 395 Concord Avenue, and a sympathetic real estate agency provided two others. At the warehouse, wholesale book, and shipping division at 778 Pleasant Street, between a drugstore and a gas station, there were canyons of books in cardboard boxes (unfortunate because the covers are the best parts), and two fifty-foot tables in the basement where four harassed-looking, prominently-sideburned men were collating stacks of Get US Out of the UN petitions...
...well-educated Beirut merchant at his home, which was in an embattled Christian neighborhood. The visitor was thus not too surprised to see several Russian-made AK-47 automatic rifles-the most common weapon on both sides-stacked in a corner of the dining room. Lunch was a pleasant affair, filled with interesting conversation; when it was over the host invited his guest to view the city from his roof. There sat a mortar, pointed in the general direction of the battle lines of the day. As the Frenchman watched in shock, the merchant dropped three quick rounds down...