Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preparation for rain, I marched over to the post office on Massachusetts Avenue and, being the law-abiding sort, filled out my registration card. I had no moral objection to filling out the card, but the thought of what it might eventually get me into was hardly pleasant...
...years after he became a writer with his story about Bogart, Naipaul went to Venezuela to look up his first character. He leaves his Caracas hotel one morning to visit the old man in his village in the Orinoco delta. They have a pleasant lunch, but when Naipaul returns to Caracas he finds a telegram from Bogart, a note he had missed that morning, which asks him to cancel his visit. Maybe it should have been a signal to Naipaul that the thousands of air-miles and the hundreds of pages which have come between him and the room...
...Dante Fascell of Florida, a frequent critic of U.S. aid to El Salvador. "People are anxious to give him a chance." Says Rolando Monterrosa Gutierrez, head of an export association in San Salvador: "People are optimistic." Duarte seems exhausted and exhilarated by his first months. "This is not a pleasant job," he told TIME, but then he added that it has brought him both "joy and frustration...
...reason: mousse works as easy as pie. With a pleasant fizz, the shaving-cream-like stuff is squirted from a can and combed through wet or towel-dried hair. After curling, blow-drying or hand-styling, moussers say, their hairdos are fuller, sleeker and easier to change than with sprays, setting gels or lotions. "Mousse helps your hair do what you want it to, with ease," notes Vidal Sassoon Art Director Steven Docherty. "You can get several styles, from a slicked-back Valentino look to a full, loose, curly look...
...cosmetics market. A few users complain that mousse leaves a residue and makes hair pack down. Millions of fans, however, swear by it. Carol Alt, a top Elite model who poses for mousse ads, is a convert. The best part, she says, is that her husband likes its pleasant almond fragrance...