Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horseshoes or volleyball or strolled the grassy area, they were studied by guards armed with shotguns and rifles who observed the familiar scene from seven of the eight watchtowers. In addition, about ten guards were down among the men, circulating, waiting, watching for trouble. It was 7:30 p.m., pleasant and cool. A gentle breeze was blowing, and the soft Tennessee twilight was just drawing on. Darkness would not fall for two hours or so?plenty of time for anyone to get away, if he could make it over the 14-to 18-ft. stonewalls...
...pleasure of thought is the pleasure of thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! How pleasant it is to have money...
...collaborate on a book with H.R. Haldeman. A founder of the National Committee on the Presidency, which lobbied for Richard Nixon's impeachment, Mee nonetheless flew to California for several days of ultimately pointless discussions. The meetings with Haldeman were touchingly anticlimactic. The man looked scrubbed, healthy, pleasant, infuriatingly unscarred. He showed Mee his annotated books about Watergate; with relentless precision, Haldeman had used green, yellow or red Magic Markers to underline passages according to their degree of veracity...
...last week a pleasant young man with a neatly trimmed brown beard approached the twin 110-story towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. He was wearing heavy hiking boots, and on his back was a burnt-orange pack containing a long coil of bright blue nylon rope. A curious window washer asked the stranger what he was planning to do. "I'm taking a walk," he said casually. And then he proceeded to: straight...
...finished ninth in the NCAA New England area qualifying tournament, played at the Pleasant Valley Country Club earlier in the season. Only the tourney medalist and runner-up qualify for the NCAA automatically, so it looked like Yale's Peter Tervainen and Holy Cross's Fred Radcliffe had beaten Vik out--at least until the selection committee decided he merited an invitation...