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Word: pleased (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several executives of the club offered suggestions as to who mailed the two pleas. "The cards might have been sent by former HYRC members who are still interested in our activities," commented Charles W. Long '62, operations director. "This has happened in past years."

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Anonymous Cards Urge HYRC To Disown Ex-President Peterson | 5/14/1959 | See Source »

Under the Jug. For two nights and a day the hostages huddled under the naphtha jugs. Around them, convicts hopped up on dispensary narcotics and kitchen-made "pruno" alcohol brandished their meat axes and jittered wildly. Rawboned Sociologist Jones, 24, was twice sent out to tell Powell that any move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Shook in Stir | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

Last week the popular Rural Self-Help scheme, which gives villagers essentials such as nails, cement and simple tools so that they themselves can build schools, roads and small dams, had ground to a stop because U.S. funds had run out. ICA's new discipline requires strict accounting of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: Aiding Friends | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

Verdict of the court, after three more such pleas: death by firing squad. The executions were carried out one morning last week, watched by relatives who jeered and spat at the victims.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Dissembler | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Moreover, Romney has a more subtle factor working in his favor. The success of his long crusade has made him a symbolic figure-a sort of Johnny Appleseed of the auto industry. He is besieged by pleas for help, love letters, poetry, suggestions that he run for Governor of Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Dinosaur Hunter | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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