Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶Rejected the pleas of the governors of drought-hit Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts that their states be designated "disaster areas" requiring emergency federal aid, thus offered little hope to New Jersey and Maryland farmers who are also suffering a crop-searing dry spell. The New England drought situation...
Brownell's plain words, which he plainly linked with President Eisenhower's prestige and power, were worthy of Westminster Hall. Just outside the hall there had been the Star Chamber, and it was there that Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Edward Coke (rhymes with book) defied...
Prudent Declaration. As for Sukarno, a kind and friendly man with pretensions to political learning, he was off on a baby-kissing tour of South Borneo, cracking jokes that had audiences slapping their hips with glee, and making pleas for national unity-the kind of unity, he said, he had...
The appeal trial brought a deluge of protests and pleas for clemency from world liberals and Marxists, including British Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Scientist Julian Huxley, Peru's President Manuel Prado, Hungarian Writer Paul Igno-tus, French ex-Fellow Traveler Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as from such Communists as...
King's Watchdog. Coke climbed fast-recorder of Norwich, M.P. for Aldeburgh, solicitor general and recorder of London, Speaker of the House of Commons. In 1594 Elizabeth raised him to be Her Majesty's Attorney General. In this post Coke's success was so great (he prosecuted...