Word: pleasant
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Pets, notably dogs, cats and some birds, can, if treated sensibly, be pleasant, undemanding, entertaining consorts. During wars, insurrections and depressions, particularly, pet ownership seems to proliferate. Aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution claimed in some cases that they had lived because their dogs had repelled or mollified would-be assassins. Even in today's recession-inflation battered economy, when the care and feeding of pets would seem an exorbitant load on the family budget, there are more and more pet owners in the U.S.-deriving, perhaps, psychological sustenance from what Kipling called the dog's "love unflinching...
...tough economic program shaped by the party's leaders in Congress to counter that offered by President Ford, 2) endorsed, not without challenge, the first formal constitution to govern their affairs and the first ever to be adopted by either major party and 3) did a powerful and pleasant lot of offstage politicking looking to 1976, as a pride of Democratic hopefuls moved around constantly, trying to win friends and influence delegates. The tone was set by the party captains, led by Chairman Robert Strauss, the chief architect of the convention and engineer of compromise (see box next page...
...Hill 2 T-bars 900 67 Eaton Mountain Skowhegan Chair 520 68 Enchanted Mountain Jackman Chair, T-bar 1,200 69 Evergreen Valley Lovell 3 chairs 1,050 70 Lost Valley Auburn 2 chairs, T-bar 240 71 Mount Abram Locke Mills Chair, 3 T-bars 1,030 72 Pleasant Mountain Bridgton 3 chairs, 3 T-bars 1,200 73 Saddleback Rangeley 2 chairs, T-bar, J-bar 1,900 74 Squaw Mountain Greenville Chair, 2 T-bars 1,750 75 Sugarloaf Kingfield Gondola, 3 chairs, 6 T-bars 2,637 76 Sunday River Bethel Chair, 3 T-bars...
...thing George Orwell called for in England: as thrilling and lively as a boys' adventure magazine, but with subject-matter and ideology a little more up to date. In newspaper articles here it often sounds martial and forbiding, but actually the music on the radio is cheerful and pleasant--a little like Muzak, but a good bit less insulting. Despite its title, "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" is an exciting short adventure story. The movies are exciting, too, and the huge posters you see at intervals not only seem more reasonable in content than American advertisements but more colorful...
...such docility? For one thing, Japanese journalists have a tradition of pleasant bonhomie with their news sources that makes hard digging difficult. Then there are the reporters' clubs, which are organized around the foreign ministry and other official news beats and can bar an aggressive reporter from press conferences. Beyond that, many major news organizations are in debt to banks that have close ties to the Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled Japan since 1955. A number of Tokyo dailies have also built their offices on government land relinquished to them through important politicians...