Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...available for questioning. From the broker's telephone, an extra line runs to the computer. After pressing a button to activate the line, the broker merely dials the code numbers of the stock in which he is interested. In a second the computer answers in a toneless but pleasant voice. It repeats the stock's code letters, then gives the latest information-the bid price, the high...
...million and the death of three off campus houses, the Center's planners promise to mix the latest intricacies of library technology with "the serene mood of a medieval cloister," to combine an environment for instense individual study with facilities for relaxation and group discussion, and to provide a pleasant meeting place for students and faculty...
...stuff an envelope, they carefully pry it open, insert the literature quickly, sit on the envelope to make it stick again. Yet the whole thing is done in a blithe-spirit fashion. Among Grindle's instructions to volunteer helpers: "It is a happy campaign. Smile and be pleasant. We think that's terribly important-that we not be grim...
...although fairly confident in the knowledge that they have studied well all year. They know, from their interest and application, how they are going to do on an exam even before they enter. And they are correct. When one Strives and succeeds, the competitive excitement of examinations is very pleasant; when one Strives and does poorly, it is a merciless goad to improve...
Sean Connery has grown in his part since the last effort. He seemed a mite too pleasant before, even while pushing Doctor No into the radioactive heavy water. Now that streak of sadistic cruelty which endeared the written Bond to all Harvard Walter Mittys appears in all its glory. We grin as the movie Bond slams the hood of a truck on one villain's hand. We snicker as he slaps luscious Daniela Bianchi around a compartment on the Orient Express. We cheer as he dumps a non-swimmer into the Adriatic with the valediction "This just isn't your...