Word: pleasant
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...half of the 19th century, one of the major outfitting centers for wagon trains heading west. By the turn of the century, it had become an agricultural and livestock center. Today, although Independence is steadily being pulled into the vortex of metropolitan Kansas City, its center remains a prosperous, pleasant county seat...
...surrounding Bade County-are coming to terms with the fact that the U.S. has become their permanent home. "The Cuba most of us would like to return to no longer exists," observes one Cuban-American wistfully. "How can the real Cuba be there, when there is a much more pleasant Cuba here!" Many Cubans in the Miami area regularly tune in TV station WQBA, which broadcasts filmed images of the Morro Castle and Havana's National Hotel every midnight before sign-off. But more significantly, the Cuban exiles are becoming U.S. citizens at the rate...
...second week in a row the pass receiving was good. Pat McInally was, well, Pat McInally--seven receptions, 74 yards, and three TDs. A pleasant surprise was the play of Tom McDermott at tight end. If McDermott begins to assert himself he'll take a lot of pressure off McInally and help the offense immensely...
Peter Barnes' The Bewitched (also playing in London) is as much of a pleasant surprise as Travesties was a disappointment. Barnes' work plays as fast and loose with history and biography as Stoppard's and is just as funny (though its humor is soaked in pain); Barnes even manages to get away with burlesque and still wind up with a powerful treatment of issues that really matter. His centerpiece is the misshapen, epileptic King Carlos V of Spain, the pitiful result of centuries of Habsburg inbreeding. For 35 years after his accession in 1665 he was expected...
Harvard, which started the season thin to begin with, could be without the services of Bill Okerman who aggravated a groin injury in last week's loss to Northeastern. In addition, freshman Stein Rafto, a pleasant surprise against the Huskies, is the first runner of the season to come down with a cold and will be out for the meet...