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  • And censorship is what this San Francisco episode, and all the other nice-nelly attacks on kids who like to write nasty stories, is all about.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • This country can make a damned fool of itself if it tries in a nice-nelly way to eliminate all evidence of the fact that we are animals who inhabit a natural world.

    Centennial Michener, James 1974

  • It’s been engaged in all sorts of shenanigans-which have been hushed up by nice-nelly types in the League who hope that if you ignore a villain he’ll go away.

    Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 2000

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