Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English gentleman is as much admired in the U.S. as over there. Perhaps we wouldn't want such conditions on our doorstep, but they suit our daydreams. Burroughs creates a homogeneous escape world where many interesting perils are always successfully overcome by the resourceful hero. Everything is pleasant-even the unpleasantness...
...much better symbol of the American woman and mother than Jacqueline Kennedy." Indeed, that special quality of homebred, plain-folks Americanness may be the one unmistakable brand that will mark Lady Bird Johnson's reign in the White House. At 51, she is cast more in the pleasant image of a neat, busy suburban clubwoman than in the queenly mold of a jet-set Continental beauty. She is intelligent, superbly poised and incredibly self-disciplined. Her skin is clear and abloom, and she has the figure of a teen-ager...
...Negroes, half of whom are jammed into the city's seamy South Side, held its municipal breath while racial violence flared in the ghettos of half a dozen Eastern cities. Surprisingly, Chicago did not explode. Then last week, in the unlikely setting of a pleasant ranch-house-dotted suburb called Dixmoor, Chicago got its nights of racial terror...
...century ago, he found only "wretched forts full of military convicts with bugles and kettledrums." Today the forts are far from wretched. Big, solidly built, and bristling with guns, they are manned by thousands of tough young Portuguese soldiers who have no illusions about their job. "Africans are pleasant people." said one trooper recently, "but we need cheap labor. If the Africans challenge this, we will have to suppress them...
...Petersburg, the merchants seemed pleased as punch at the way things were working out. Most of them echoed Ralph Howard, manager of the National Shirt Shop at downtown's main crossroads: "Business is up about 15%. More important, the attitude of the customers is much more pleasant. They're not in a bad mood any more...