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Word: pleasantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempt to make the house a "pleasant, safe and attractive place to live" and maintain its spiffy appearance after $5 million of renovations last year, K-House Master Donald H. Pfister recently informed Kirkland residents that from now on, messy hallways will not be tolerated...

Author: By Matthew Snyder, | Title: Kirkland Begins War on Trash | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

...Reagan decides to proceed with the Star Wars system, he just might be doing us all a favor should one day Russia and the United States find themselves deep in crisis. It's not pleasant to think that force stand on a hair-trigger, but in an age of precision technology, when one side can wipe out the other's command systems in a matter of minutes, that's just reality. Anything that minutes this reality less painful on the "day of reckoning" should be welcomed

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Eat Crow, Yuppies | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...driving force behind the batswomen's success has been the excellent pitchin of Gerri Rubin (4-1, 2.97 ERA) and Janet Dickerman (1-1, 3.06). The most pleasant surprise, however, has been the offensive production...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: They're a Hit | 4/13/1985 | See Source »

...show where humor fits in. It's not a yuk a minute. It's not a bunch of jokes. Humor forces you to think about every point you're going to make during a speech. All it does is reinforce traditional practices but in a more pleasant, fun kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Learning to Laugh | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

Baby yuppies go on the road: the week's oddest cross-pollination of genres. In this teenpic travelogue, Gib (John Cusack) and Alison (Daphne Zuniga) are only college freshmen, and already they're lost in America. Gib, a quick, pleasant non-hunk, attends an Eastern school, but someone has lined up a "sure thing" for him in California. It is the film's unlikely premise that this bundle of lissome lubriciousness (Nicollette Sheridan), whom Gib has never met, is his for the asking; he need only go west to strike gold. He will do so in the reluctant company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Uneasy Riders and a Pig | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

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