Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through the line, smiling self-assuredly as I watched train after train leave the loading point and inch its way up the first rise. I laughed nonchalantly as I buckled my seatbelt and pulled the safety bar toward my lap. I thanked the attendant when she wished me a pleasant ride...
...Houses can be significantly repaired, the University has taken at least one intelligent step towards making the Houses more sensible users of energy. By installing heating controls in each room, as Harvard is doing, the University will not only lower its energy costs, but make students' rooms more pleasant places to live. Students will accept and even encourage common sense ideas like this one, and Harvard should look for more like it. The implementation of this sound new plan for the Houses would be a good first step...
...future with confidence by adopting solutions that represent neither the past nor blind dogma." Which would be fine if Tsongas had some new solutions; all he can suggest is the blending of the two yearnings. Mix yellow and blue and you get green. It may not be as pleasant to you as yellow or blue, but you can live with green...
...defeating the Huskies, who were ranked fifth in the pre-season New England ratings, the eighth-ranked Crimson provided a race full of what McCurdy called "pleasant surprises...
...very pleasant and, as realized by Director Weir, who proved in Picnic at Hanging Rock that he has a gift for empty-space pictorialism, quite handsome. But after the males have been bonded, they must endure separation (Archy gets a good regiment, Frank finds himself in the infantry), and the audience must endure an extended service comedy as the lads train in Egypt, where there are mule jokes, "feelthy" pictures jokes, and the Pyramids at dawn. At times it seems that one can't get to Gallipoli at all from the point at which Weir starts...