Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arriving in Teheran, Halsman watched an army march-past outside the palace, and was surprised to see who was taking the salute: the Crown Prince, just 16 months old. Next day Halsman photographed the Empress Farah, whom he found "very young, pleasant, serious and timid...
...compared with its own weakness. One of Russia's great economic defeats was dramatized last week when Moscow boosted meat prices 30% and butter prices 25%-the sharpest cost-of-living increase in Russia since World War II. Said Nikita:."I wouldn't say that this was pleasant for the people." But he argued that the move was necessary. Reason: collective farmers "have not been materially interested in increasing their output" because prices were so low. But the government claimed it could not divert funds from defense for farm incentive payments or purchase needed equipment, because...
Dust & Dirt. By presidential taste, the Republican Tribune rarely makes pleasant reading these days. While other papers, as if anxious to give Kennedy the benefit of all possible doubt, waited for the dust in Pecos to settle a bit before jumping onto the Billie Sol Estes story, the Trib not only stirred dust but dished dirt. Eight days before the New York Times, for example, saw fit to move the developments in Pecos onto Page One, the Trib's frontpage headlines screamed: TEXAS SCANDAL REACHES...
...locals try to fly the bird on a leash. The "X-er"-the man whose job it is to paint big Xs on the windows of condemned buildings-feels himself the personification of doom, gets so worked up over X-ing out so many Fifth Avenue mansions and pleasant brownstones that he has a nervous breakdown. The most helpless, indomitable. charming ragamuffin of the lot is Leroy, a young Negro boy who plays tunes on glass bowls, sells Bibles, and talks...
...notion that a novel should offer pleasant, diverting entertainment is unfashionable these days (as is, for that matter, the notion that entertainment should be pleasant or diverting). No young writer who hoped to find a publisher would begin his novel, as the late Angela Thirkell did her latest book, with "It was one of those delightful English summer days so well described by Lord Tennyson." But for readers who had enough sense to come in out of the reality, it was not a bad sort of beginning. One knew where one stood, which was as far as possible from...