Word: unpleasanter
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Unpleasant as it Seems
Since, the war, however, rival Ivy League recruiting has unquestionably attracted many fine scholar-athletes who might normally have come to Cambridge. In striking back, Harvard may expect unpleasant consequences no matter what it does. Even then Crimson alumni try to convince a good scholar-athlete to come here, the...
The friendship had been common knowledge for weeks, and the sorority girls had been subjected to some unpleasant wisecracks from their own dates. A few of them had girl-to-girl talks with Debbie, and then the housemother spoke her piece. Finally the alumnae adviser had a quiet meeting with...
And a potent enough leaven calls for an "unpleasant Christianity." The oldtime Puritans might not have been very jolly people to have around, Berggrav points out, but they did great things for political liberty.
The hardest job in reporting Britain is to do justice to what is right about it: the plucky people, the enduring greenness, the reminders, both in man and nature, of a memorable past; the good nature, the good sense and the good heart of the run of the people; the...