Word: pleasants
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...last week a pleasant young man with a neatly trimmed brown beard approached the twin 110-story towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. He was wearing heavy hiking boots, and on his back was a burnt-orange pack containing a long coil of bright blue nylon rope. A curious window washer asked the stranger what he was planning to do. "I'm taking a walk," he said casually. And then he proceeded to: straight...
...finished ninth in the NCAA New England area qualifying tournament, played at the Pleasant Valley Country Club earlier in the season. Only the tourney medalist and runner-up qualify for the NCAA automatically, so it looked like Yale's Peter Tervainen and Holy Cross's Fred Radcliffe had beaten Vik out--at least until the selection committee decided he merited an invitation...
...Hello," Louise said in her best telephone voice--a soothing voice that sounded like your mother's when she answers the phone in the middle of a big fight you are having with her--very pleasant, very annoying...
They live quietly in the exclusive suburbs of River Forest and the Hamptons. There may be a ranch house in Palm Springs or a Miami condominium as well. They can afford the best of everything, but they have almost nowhere to go, few pleasant ways to pass the time. Their husbands are often away on business, or in jail, or calling on their mistresses. The wives are isolated not only by bodyguards but also by ignorance of the details of their husbands' business activities. The men's workday deeds are not discussed at dinner...
...worst thing I had to face was the day my husband went to prison," says the wife, a pleasant, stylish blonde. "For him, the worst day came when his kids were kicked out of a private Grosse Pointe club...