Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whooshing from airport to similar airport, jet travelers usually find the world a pretty homogeneous place. Theroux destroys this illusion. His often snail-like pace (one local in southern India makes 94 stops) gives him the not always pleasant chance to sniff out local differences. "The first condition of understanding a foreign country," T.S. Eliot once wrote, "is to smell it," and Theroux misses nothing, from the burned coal that permeates Indian train stations to the poisonous industrial fumes of Osaka...
Some of the biggest profits gains came in the machinery industry-up 25% from the first quarter, largely as a result of heavier demand for coal-mining and farm equipment. Food processing enjoyed a 33% rise, mainly because lower costs for sugar, wheat and shortening fattened profit margins. Another pleasant surprise: General Motors reported net income up more than 400% above the first quarter, and 8.8% ahead of a year ago, on the strength of a long-awaited pickup in its car sales. American Motors also showed a healthy increase: net income rose to $10.1 million, v. a $47.8 million...
...radio-right now! So you wait for the right moment, and then, nonchalantly (so they won't think this is why you called), you ask, "Could you put the radio up to the phone and let the hear a minute of the Dodger game?" Soon Vin Scully's "pleasant baritone voice," as Roger Kahn describes it in The Boys of Summer, comes through the earpiece Vin Scully, the best broadcaster in baseball, who doesn't barter in cliches like "That hall had eyes on it" (a favorite of Sox announcer Ken Harrelson), or "You have to get hits...
...main highway, a two-lane, black-top affair. A rutty dirt road leads to his gate and a sign warning off all trespassers not on foot. From a parked green Capri, the two flat-landers later seen by the source stared at us in a not altogether pleasant manner, and they were big and ugly and smelt sort of funny so I gave the biggest and ugliest of them--a bulging, pale fish-eyed creature with sweated-back hair and a dim-witted, monotone voice--a warm beer. He smiled...
Then the violence started against Hoffa's men. In August 1974 an explosion wrecked Johnson's 45-ft. cabin cruiser, on which he and Hoffa had spent many pleasant hours fishing and talking union politics. George Roxburghy, a trustee of the local, was blinded in one eye by a shotgun blast. Otto Wendel, the local's secretary-treasurer, had his barn burned to the ground. A bomb exploded outside the house of an organizer for the local...