Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Gimo had all but yielded to repeated pleas for his resignation and a peace bid to the Communists. How could Chiang Kai-shek hold out when his Northwest commander, Chang Chih-chung, had counseled another effort to negotiate? When the commander of the armies defending Nanking, sturdy Pai Chung...
...woolen dresses at $3.95, nylons for 97? a pair. Just nine minutes after the store opened, he had to shut the doors again. Some 20,000 shoppers had clogged the aisles and escalators. Less than two hours later Ohrbach's was on the air with fervent pleas of "Please, please don't come to Ohrbach's today...
A few weeks ago, it was finally and formally agreed that China's struggle was indeed part of the world struggle against Communism. The agreement came after repeated pleas from men like Defense Secretary James Forrestal, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, the State Department's Policy Planner George...
They reached an areaway, separated from the consulate by an iron fence, just as three Russians burst out of the consulate's back door. As police scrambled over the fence, they could hear the injured woman moaning in Russian: "Leave me alone, leave me alone." Despite her pleas, and...
¶New Yorkers watched their highways for four miracle Fords which, it was said, went 60 miles per gallon of gasoline, could also be run by atomic energy, and (as some heard it) sprouted wings at the touch of a button. The cars had escaped somehow from a secret research...