Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little tired of that word. I've heard enough of it." "I was born a good child. Had I lost both of my parents at the age of three or four, I still might have become a good man." "I quit running at 95." "It was just as pleasant as a good restaurant." Who said which? These quotes, out of this week's TIME, were said (but not in the same order) by Jawaharlal Nehru, Pavel Popovich, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Matthew J. Culligan, Douglas MacArthur, Niccoló Tucci and Dwight Eisenhower. One way to find...
Floating Pencils. Unlike Gagarin and Titov, the two cosmonauts ate solid food -bite-size chunks of veal cutlet, chicken, sandwiches and pastries. "It was just as pleasant as a good restaurant," recalled Nikolayev when he landed, and, depending on his knowledge of Russian restaurants, he may have meant what he said...
...good before. Take Joanne Hamlin, for instance. Her Lady Cicely is everything Shaw himself could have wanted from the part: she can completely silence the ditherings of male incompetence with a few words in her quiet, unruffled voice that can tolerate absolutely no nonsense. Demurely dominating, she establishes her pleasant despotism early in the first act, and it is subsequently never seriously shaken...
...Webb's astonishment, 272 were sold the first weekend. Built of concrete blocks in pleasant pastel colors, the houses were priced from $8,750 to $11,600 for three bedrooms, two baths. (A house on the golf course, which snakes through the community, cost $1,450 more.) Both FHA and bank financing were offered, with monthly payments varying from $73 to $114. Sun City customers were not rich, but Webb found that more than half wanted to pay cash. The purchasers were usually men of solid substance-former engineers, successful salesmen, foremen, dentists, small businessmen, schoolteachers-with money...
...bent toward tragedy, it is pleasant to note that Agee's last letter was one in which he was able to extract an amiable fantasy from the world of caged, frustrated animals. The letter is in the form of a draft for a film script about circus elephants. They are taught to dance by Choreographer George Balanchine but are shamed by being made huge fools of. "Later that night the wisest of them, extending his trunk, licks up a dying cigar butt, and drops it in fresh straw. All 36 elephants die in the fire. Their huge souls, light...