Word: pleasingness
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Mondale returned to the Senate in style-and shoes-in 1965, after he had been appointed to a vacant seat (later he was twice elected). Though a steadfast liberal, he rarely took unpopular stands or did anything in revolt. That caution showed up more clearly when Mondale became Vice President...
MacDonald refused to discuss the nature of Friday's settlement, which Harvard's head negotiator, Administrative Vice President Robert Saltonstall had characterized as surprising and unexpectedly favorable to the University, except to say that "the company was pleased, and I think the agreement was mutually pleasing."
As long as Alexander has an arsenal of information at her fingertips, her prose style is swift and pleasing. She handles a story well, and her melodramatic style suits this story in particular. Once Jean Harris begins to find her clothes slashed to pieces and splashed with Mercurochrome and begins...
The next question for Reagan is where to turn for the kind of dedicated and selfless work that Franklin Roosevelt won from Government agencies, the military, university scientists and private business to develop the atomic bomb. Reagan does not have the same emergency authority, nor is there the urgency of...
The solution, calligraphers say, is a simplified version of italic, one of the predominant handwriting styles of the Italian Renaissance. It was developed by Ludovico degli Arrighi, a Vatican chancery scribe, who in 1522 composed the first writing manual for popular use, La Operina. Like much Western writing since antiquity...