Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Returning home to the plaudits of his countrymen, Onoda accepted his new-found celebrity with philosophical calm. What had been his toughest experience? "To have lost my comrades-in-arms." And the most pleasant experience? "Nothing-nothing pleasant happened to me through all these 29 years." Still, he was not quite willing to admit that it had all been in vain. "My country today is rich and great," he said. "When my purpose in the war has been attained, in the fact that Japan today is rich and great, to have won or lost the war is entirely beside...
Taxes on the gold producers are expected to net the government $328 million this year, just about double 1973 receipts. How to spend the new wealth has become a pleasant issue in the campaign for the parliamentary elections on April 24. The ruling Nationalist Party pledges to consider improving the country's schools, hospitals and food subsidies; it also hints at income tax cuts. The opposition Progressive Party would use the money instead to build up the tribal homelands where blacks are being relocated...
...Memorial Church since 1972, speaks in just this way, in a deep, comfortable New England-with-a-trace-of-Europe accent. As he preaches, jarring his listeners with references to the desperation of Steve McQueen in Papillon or the decadence of Holiday and Ramada Inns littering the countryside, his pleasant voice seems ready to burst at any moment into joyful music. And, in any Gomes service, it frequently yields to the temptation. Though he once wanted little from churches besides the music, Reverend Gomes has emerged as the right man for Memorial Church in a troubled era that seems...
...major sonata of Cesar Franck which concluded the program fared much better. It is a pleasant if somewhat syrupy work that continues the overt emotionalism of Liszt without any of the daring and grandeur that could make it any more than mediocre...
...victorious 800-yd. free relay. Teammate Tom Wolf came within a shade of winning the 100-yd. back, in the process breaking the only record left from the pre-Gambril-Essick era, and ran away from everybody in the 200-yd. version. Wolf's outstanding meet was a very pleasant surprise...