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Word: pleased (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should think about what you are doing," another exhorted a truckful of soldiers. At the intersection of Gongzhufen, five miles west of Tiananmen, thousands flooded around a convoy of 50 trucks, bringing food, water and pleas for the soldiers. Urged a young woman: "The students are for the people. Please don't hurt the students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: State of Siege | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

Protesters have besieged the British government with pleas to save the sites. They have written letters, staged marches and held all-night vigils. Among the petitioners: Laurence Olivier, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Dustin Hoffman and Princes Charles and Edward. Declared Tony Banks, a Labor Member of Parliament: "The destruction of these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: To Build or Not to Build | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

-- Baker agreed with an NSC recommendation that in Moscow he should reject any Soviet pleas to promote a compromise settlement between the Soviet-backed Afghan government and the U.S.-backed rebels. Washington insists on continuing to supply arms to the rebel mujahedin, even though the U.S. has achieved its goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do-Nothing Detente | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

The silly decision is but the latest in a series of apartheid measures that have led blacks to boycott the town's business district. As a result, commercial sales are down 40% to 70%, but the council has refused to budge, ! despite pleas by the Boksburg Chamber of Commerce to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Food for Thought | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

But the council's lively and admittedly uninformed debate during last Sunday's meeting paled in comparison to the argument which raged across campus later in the week--spurred on by pleas for support from students on both sides of the controversy.

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: A Week the Council Will Never Forget | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

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