Word: pleasantly
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...Israelis reject the 1915 version, claiming it was faked by the British in order to give them a pleasant view of the port of Aqaba, now part of Jordan. In fact, say the Israelis, the British blurred the issue quite literally by marking the border on the 1915 map with a very thick pencil. But if the Israelis had a claim to Taba, reply the Egyptians, why did they make no attempt to retain it when they overran and then withdrew from the Sinai following the 1948 and 1956 wars? Papouchado favors a Solomonic solution, suggesting that the two countries...
...collided with the DC-9 on the virtually cloudless day. Trying to slow the dive of his 60-ton plane, Valdes threw its two engines into reverse thrust. The whine of the jets grew to an awful roar before the airliner smashed with a fiery explosion into a pleasant middle-class neighborhood of suburban Cerritos, where residents had been enjoying the Labor Day weekend...
...longer have to rely on the 40-odd other stations in range to hear the weather, world and local news, what the Dow Jones is up to. It would be blessed with 60-second spots on "Wonderful Cape Ann" and a daily report "For Fishermen Only." And, of course, pleasant voices and a mix of tasteful music. Grandbanke has outlined Geller's deficiencies in a succession of legal forums. (You cannot even find out how the Sox are doing from WVCA, and Geller will probably never utter the name Larry Bird unless Bird takes up the violin.) The corporation...
...other people can have nothing interesting to say." At another, while dining in a Parisian cafe with his fourth wife, Elena, he sees himself in a wall mirror and "was horrified at the contrast between my big-bellied person and my red and swollen face, with a not too pleasant expression about the eyes and the mouth, and Elena's exquisite slimness and delicacy...
...immobile and rusting on Kesey's farm in Pleasant Hill, Ore., the vehicle symbolizes the built-in obsolescence of 1960s enthusiasms. The same can be said for Demon Box, a collection of new and previously published magazine pieces about the good old days, departed friends, family, the pull of the soil and the lure of dope. Spruced up and polished, these writings impress and entertain but seem like an attempt to squeeze a few more miles out of a writer who has either run out of gas or has been stalled by too many chemical additives...