Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...returns cascaded into his headquarters in Little Rock's Marion Hotel, Faubus paraded his pleasant smile before the Dixie-singing, button-wearing hundreds on hand to celebrate his certain victory. "Don't leave now. Governor," cried a hanger-on as Faubus started off to make a victory statement somewhere else. "Ike's on the phone." Faubus' cocky answer brought cackles and rebel yells out of the sultry night. "Tell him to call back later," he drawled...
When the new rules were laid down, some Portland educators braced for cries of protest from the public. To their pleasant surprise, most of the people who spoke up agreed that it was time to have less circus and more school...
Astutely aware that the pleasant sinkholes where a man misspends his youth glow with unearthly allure as the green years recede, the proprietors of Leavitt & Peirce, a Cambridge (Mass.) tobacco hall and onetime pool hall, invited 31 old Harvard graduates to psalm their shop's 75th anniversary. Done up in a handsome volume that is illustrated by snapshots of mustached crewmen, football mastodons of the 1880s, and a sinful tintype of a 19th century Cambridge sybarite puffing a hookah, the sentimental replies set up a blue haze of reminiscence...
...inner circle after going to work in 1930 as secretary to General Carlos Riva Palacio, then the party's titular head. As Labor Minister, López Mateos settled 13,382 disputes with only a handful of strikes. A hard worker, he took his smooth, noncommittal speeches and pleasant grin to 480 towns during a campaign that he could have won by staying home...
...Complained that "this whole miserable massacre of character'' resulted from the vengeful attitude of John Fox, former publisher of the defunct Boston Post (TIME, July 7)-and all because Goldfine had demanded payment from Fox of a legal debt. Said Goldnne: "It's not pleasant to have to talk about Mr. Fox because he seems like a sick man to me. He's crazy like...