Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Two months before he died of Hodgkin's disease, at 33, Rumanian-born Pianist Dinu Lipatti played for the last time in public, at the 1950 International Festival in Besangon, France. To keep the date, he overrode his doctor's and his wife's pleas not to...
As the week's hearings began, Dave himself sat down in the committee room, rolled out about 30 Fifth Amendment pleas in 32 minutes. But if Dave was not talking, his former business associates were -and what they had to say should have made Dave leap out of his...
More important, however, is the Supreme Soviet's appeal for representatives of the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament to meet with Russian legislators to discuss banning nuclear bomb experiments. The United States can, and probably will, ignore the pleas from Africa, Rome, Bonn, and Tokyo, but it cannot afford...
But in response to Hare's pleas for recognition of the right of a user-nation organization to consult and cooperate in the canal's operation, Nasser conceded only that the Canal Authority would "welcome and encourage cooperation"-with "representatives of shipping and trade"-meaning companies, not nations...
Too Many Babies. By last week, with the situation thoroughly out of hand, official party publications were full of pleas for a return to conjugal continence. "Shameless licentiousness," cried one writer, "is the capitalist way. We young people must uphold the principles of Communist morality." But it was not morality...