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Word: pleasing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home in a Strait Jacket. Desertions from all ranks of the Red Army were so numerous that Russian border guards had been doubled. Berlin saw a typical tragedy. When young Red Army Senior Lieut. Alexis Kovalev was ordered back to Russia, he slashed his wrists. But he was rushed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Hey! Wait for Me! | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

Commenting on several pleas for inter-House dining privileges received recently by the CRIMSON from residents of Claverly, Dudley, Apley, and Little, Watson asserted that a similar appeal was voted down last year by Housemasters and the administration "after a long discussion during which everything was brought up."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Watson Sees No Extension Of Interhouse | 9/25/1947 | See Source »

Curley had fought his conviction and sentence through U.S. Appellate and Supreme Courts, and lost. Last week, in the Washington District Court of Judge James M. Proctor, he made a final effort to beat the rap. But despite doctors' affidavits saying that Curley suffered from nine dangerous afflictions, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Second Time Around | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

In the House, Republicans were desperately trying to make good on at least the Senate's promise. They approved the 11% cut of the Navy's appropriation, despite the Navy's agonized pleas that it would mean a reduction of 82,000 men below authorized strength. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Jun. 2, 1947 | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

Willie Francis never quite understood all the hubbub that followed-the appeals to the Louisiana courts, the pleas to the State Pardon Board, the sob stories in the press. When he heard that the Supreme Court had ruled against him, he was just surprised that "one Negro boy could get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Sunday Heart | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

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