Word: pleasants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...some things behind: I left behind that toilet paper, thanks to some solid indoor plumbing. I left behind a handful of frightening porcelain gifts, artfully decorating my hotel room with taunting monkeys and glassy-eyed dolphins. I left behind the delusion that everything and everyone around me is as pleasant as it might appear, or as I want it to appear...
...tense years before the Civil War, Greenhow understood the ways of Washington. She advised a friend seeking a favor that Congressmen were "honorable men who could not be bribed, but they discern much more clearly the justice of a case, when they have dined and supped well in pleasant company." When the war started, the Union politicians who continued to sup with Greenhow let slip intelligence that she passed along in complicated code to rebel generals...
...recent years, the role of hostess has fallen out of favor. Members of Congress dash from fund raisers in D.C. to town meetings in their districts, leaving little time for "pleasant company." But one invitation remains a draw: dinner at the White House. Now, let's see if George Bush can use the seductive setting to persuade politicians to come together on policy...
...With its remote location, small population and favorable international reputation, New Zealand is regarded as a pleasant and peaceful place to live. Yet this island nation harbors a small, unique and brutal street-gang culture that has defied authorities for more than 30 years and now appears to be nurturing a new, more violent mutation. Last month, the country's older ethnic gangs were involved in a series of tit-for-tat drive-by shootings that left a toddler dead; meanwhile the country's juvenile gangs have emerged as a new force in crime, linked to eight killings and many...
...talking teens. "They'd still be all over the place no matter how many you threw out," says Bob Harrington, head of corporate security for Pyramid Management Group, which oversees 20 malls in New York and Massachusetts. And since too many cops chasing too many kids does not a pleasant shopping setting make, Pyramid now forces unchaperoned minors to leave its six biggest malls by 4 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays...