Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians, Kissinger said: "We have no intention -indeed, we have no capability-of expelling Soviet influence." With the diplomatic niceties out of the way, the offers and counteroffers planned and plotted, Nixon and Kissinger could depart on their diplomatic barnstorming tour in the expectation that it would be a pleasant change from conditions at home...
...Stoolie has a good, gaudy eye for the excesses of Miami style. It is pleasant enough idling through places like the Parrot Jungle, which features birds who roller-skate, and a nightclub for the aged, where a singer named Peppy Fields exhorts her audience to think young. The trouble is that there is a plot to be got over, and one that hangs heavily indeed...
Kaufmann graduated from the Business School in 1964, became director of admissions in 1968, and switched to his present job under Dunlop's deanship, in 1971. "Dunlop was very bright and chose to centralize his power," Kaufmann says. "He had an insatiable capacity for work, though he was pleasant and, believe it or not, humorful. He was vigorous, hyperactive, but compassionate. Rosovsky is also very able and very bright, but less interested in centralizing his authority. His style is different and the times are different now. He's more interested in longer-term problems than Dunlop...
...Governor for six terms, and Bumpers had so little money that he had to sell his dairy herd for $95,000 to pay campaign and family expenses. Then it was the turn of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, the Republican incumbent. In the November election, Rockefeller called Bumpers "a vaguely pleasant fellow with one speech, a shoeshine and a smile." The pleasant fellow attacked Rockefeller for his frequent absences from the state and won going away...
...middle, dark, carefully combed hair looking a bit sheepish for covering his ears, face full of a quiet pride and the air of hanging back a bit on the vocals in favor of his accomplished banjo--and his sons. One of them, who introduced the songs, has a pleasant Dylanesque drawl to his voice, and both of them can, as they say, play the flat flip out of a guitar. The audience got off most on the inevitable Foggy Mountain Breakdown, and on Friday they finally made the Revue come back twice to face those massed lights and hanging planters...