Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deathtrap is enjoyable, if easily forgotten. That its advertisements feature a giant rubik's cube probably says a lot about the film. You might not guess its first few moves, but once on your way things seem to get more and more obvious. A pleasant experience, if not a lasting one. And the novelty soon wears...
...minor contention. No one would seriously suggest that the resources freed up by even the most drastic retrenchment in federal requirements actually will dramatically facilitate the hiring of women or minorities Reducing the "immense burden of paperwork" will make the lives of department chairmen and search committees more pleasant. Whether it will make them more efficient purveyors of affirmative action seems another story entirely...
...Lisa has been doing some nice things," Kleinfelder said after the game. "Today was a real pleasant surprise, but she's always had a good nose for the goal...
...prices for hard-cover books are high [March 22], but a ticket to a Broadway show costs two or three times as much for only a few pleasant hours, and that's it. You can reread a book again and again. You can lend it to family and friends. It looks nice on the bookshelf...
...decades, the standard way to straighten out a child's curved spine was with a bulky back brace. Worn for up to eight years, it was not a pleasant prospect for the 25 out of 1,000 American teen-agers (90% girls) afflicted with spinal curvatures, or scoliosis. For those with severe curves, surgery often was required. It too had its unpleasant consequences, sometimes including nine months' confinement in a hip-to-chin plaster body cast...