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Word: pleased (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The British method, if brought off quickly, might have had more effect than many men of good will would care to admit. But in the end it encountered overriding objections, and the U.S. gained credit throughout the world for separating itself last week from the conduct of its oldest allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Danger in the Jungle | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

All of the oratory now is behind us--even the get-out-the-vote pleas, surest sign that the campaign is over. The record of Eisenhower's four years in Washington has been painted in vivid detail by the party hucksters, and both good and bad images of the candidates...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: The Stevenson Team | 11/6/1956 | See Source »

At a Memphis filling station. Dreamboat Groaner Elvis Presley showed that he can swing his fists as adroitly as his pelvis. Pulling up in his li'l ol' unpretentious white $10,000 Continental Mark II, Presley groaned a request to have his car's gas tank checked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

The regime backed up its pleas by cancelling army leaves and putting 120,000 army troops on emergency alert to crush any anti-Soviet uprising.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Consults Allies on Question Of Protesting Russian 'Brutality'; Revolts Spread to West Hungary | 10/27/1956 | See Source »

Domestic scholarships went the way of the parking problem; they were voted under the table in spite of pleas for action from the Chairman of the Domestic Scholarships Committee and President Abramson.

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Council Head Sees Squeeze Over Parking | 10/16/1956 | See Source »

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