Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carve a big smile in it, scoop out its brains, stick a candle inside and let it sit on your windowsill. Similarly, Andy Rooney's essays are goofy and brainless, but also warm and pleasant...
...despite her best efforts, so typical of the tenured academic set, to put him off. She would deny him even a glance at her newspaper, were she not unfamiliar with the proper form of that particular snub. And the more physical manifestations of love-well. Vinnie still finds it pleasant but bittersweet, the principal male organ still seems "infected: sore, red, puffy...
...they decided not to respect conventions of international behavior. They gambled that the U.S. would be too paralyzed by the spectre of Vietnam, and by flimsy notions of law, to take appropriate action. Now that the Administration has called this bluff, the prospects facing Nicaragua are not pleasant ones. But as unfortunate as their miscalculation may be, it is hardly our placed to weep for these aggressive "victims." James Matthews...
...that found the kneejerking Boswell scurrying to the defence, mostly he hated the tepid legal routine. Further, he lacked the instincts of a lawyer. Although Boswell did settle down some after marrying his beloved wife Margaret, Edinburgh in the shadow of his father and the law was never a pleasant home for him. "Only in London were his talents and personality appreciated at their full value. Only in London did mere existence blossom into life." In London was Johnson, Burke, Goldsmith along with the usual "whirlwind of executions, dinner and girls," Boswell's appetite for adventure stagnated in Edinburgh...
...about five years," says Brandeis chemistry professor Saul G. Cohen, one of 30 members of Harvard's Board of Overseers, which would give routine approval to the selection of any Bok replacement. "It's a pretty terrible job, although I think Harvard is probably one of the more pleasant places...