Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since 1941 everybody was happy. The team was happy, the coaches were content, everybody else was lost for three days in a pleasant haze. Yale showed the same plays and the same backs that had been invincible for two years--and lost. Crimson runners broke away for long runs, linemen blocked like tigers, and the team came from behind in the last period to win going away...
...publication of Eisenhower's book was carefully held up until after the election. But Ike's only stick of political dynamite has already become pretty damp powder. In Potsdam one day, Ike was out driving with President Truman, whom he had found "sincere, earnest, and a most pleasant person with whom to deal." Said Truman, all of a sudden: "General, there is nothing that you may want that I won't try to help you get. That definitely and specifically includes the presidency in 1948." Ike says he replied with a laugh: "Mr. President...
...Nieman Fellowship can be whatever the individual wants to make it. For some men it has been merely a pleasant year of leisurely study; but for the great majority it has been much more--the chance to write a book, or learn a specialty, or study a field on a schedule more conducive to knowledge than the daily push of a copy desk...
This organization, until extinguished by the war, enjoyed a pleasant relationship with Harvard dance committees and their patrons, managing somehow to arrive on time at their engagements and otherwise to fulfill the conditions of their contracts in a way that would amaze those whose experience with Harvard dances goes back only a few years...
...Luck of the Irish. A pleasant little comedy that rises above its title; with Cecil Kellaway, Anne Baxter, Tyrone Power (TIME...