Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Refusing to heed the pleas of Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, the Senate ducked a 14-year-old issue and ordered the St. Lawrence Seaway bill returned to committee for further study. Said Wiley: "I know when I've been kicked in the pants."
¶ In New Jersey's Bergen County Common Pleas Court, U.S. citizenship was granted in a hurry to Mrs. Stella Lewandowski, widowed mother of three sons killed in World War II.
Between rifle blasts and the snorting of boilers, garrulous grumblings on the part of rifle team president and secretary, Hale and David Knight, are rising from the hot, noisy nether-regions of the Indoor Athletic Building these days. Punctuating these meanings are pleas for University financial and spiritual aid for...
Some of the big political issues for 1948 had already been raised; the main battle lines were drawn. For a while, it would be Harry Truman's prerogative to keep the Republican congressional majority on the defensive. In rapid succession, the President would deliver three messages: on the state...
"The people," said Niall McPherson of Dumfries, "are accustomed to their oatmeal, and they must have it." But the pleas were in vain. Like a stiftnecked English nanny who knows what's best, the Parliament sustained the oatmeal ration.