Word: pleased
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Peiyuan's crime, in the eyes of the communists, was to have been born to a relatively prosperous landowning family. His father, who had five younger sons and a daughter as well as the twins, ignored all pleas to flee to Hong Kong before the revolution. His attempt to ingratiate...
Gates turns out to be right. Wielding their guns, they enter the designated bunker, Gates holding the cease-fire agreement in front of him like a search warrant, repeating, "In the name of President Bush, and under the terms of the cease fire-agreement, let us through. We are here...
There were several days of pleas and threats of violence, Chavunduka said. Then they began to torture him at a professional torture center and at the military barracks, he said.
A captivated audience packed Ticknor Lounge last night to listen to pleas for prison reform from three women who had themselves spent time behind bars.
But for all the pleas from council leaders calling for a renewed focus on student services, the council still passed--by a single vote--a divestment bill, encouraging the University to sever ties with companies with a history of human rights and environmental violations.