Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...housing did provide certain benefits. "We had the opportunity to be grubby, dirty and quiet at home without anyone knowing. It was a great relief to hide out and not bother for a while," says Sara McGuire Muspratt '61, while Peggy Gilkerson Heywood '61 adds that dorms were "very pleasant, small-scale homelike places...
...some people you have just met and begin a seemingly innocuous conversation about the state of the world. Pretty soon you learn not only that your tablemates hold views wildly different from your own, but also that they are offended and outraged by your opinions. In five minutes, a pleasant meal has deteriorated into a full-blown war of words...
...Farmer Kevin Main's farrowing barn near Altona, Ill., the newborn piglets lay on their sides, their tiny feet paddling frantically in the air. A day later they were dead. "It was not a pleasant thing," Main recalls. "We lost over a hundred." Main's 480-swine herd had been hit by pseudorabies, a disease caused by a herpes virus that attacks the central nervous system of pigs, sheep, cattle and other animals. Nearly always fatal in young pigs, it causes symptoms ranging from disoriented wandering to skin lesions to convulsions, and can lead to reproductive failure in animals that...
...Pleasant as this official validation is for us, far more important are the accolades of hundreds of thousands of Kaplan "alums" like Harvard's Benjamin Reder, who said in your article, "I really do think [the Kaplan course] helps... but some people can't afford it." To correct the record on this issue as well, it should be emphasized that Kaplan does offer "scholarships" to qualified students. We do not anyone to be denied the competitive edge the Kaplan courses confer. Susan B. Kaplan New England Regional Administrator Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center
...such counterterror tactics conflict sharply with what one Italian airport official calls the "commercial philosophy" of Western airlines. Says an Interior Ministry official in Rome: "A commercial airport is asked to give tourists a pleasant, welcoming image. Is this consonant with stripping passengers, body checks and shaking out their clothes?" Such inconveniences on the ground may be the price that travelers pay for peace of mind...