Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The lone dissenter was Miss Jeannette Rankin, Montana Republican, grey-haired pacifist who also voted, with many a tear, against the declaration of war on April 6, 1917. This time Miss Rankin, to whose pleas for recognition the Speaker was conveniently deaf, mostly sat, with a bewildered smile, muttering over...
Preachers came, at least a score, but with few pleas for mercy. Instead, most denounced flogging, compared the Klan to "the despicable Gestapo." One stocky pastor described his own flogging to unconsciousness. Except for an orthodox Jew, who paid tribute to the Ku Klux Klan, the show took an altogether...
Some 60,000 of Glasgow's Clydeside ship yard workers went on strike last week despite the pleas of their union, the laws of their Government. It was only a 30-minute strike. But it was the first of a threatened series of "token" strikes brought on by the...
For months Harold Ickes had worn down the White House doormat, trotting in & out with pleas, arguments, documents, plans and maps showing how much more economically, honestly, efficiently the projects could be managed if he could be the sole manager.
Professor Perry's latest book, "On All Fronts," is a composite of impassioned idealism and salty, New England good sense. More often than not the two blend well, and the reader drinks a warming potion of faith. Occasionally, however, the author is guilty is substituting idealism for an unpleasant application...