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Word: pleasing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ballots & Bail. Jimmy spent 25 years building his army among the hard-put widows and workingmen in his district. At Christmastime and Thanksgiving, he handed out turkeys to neighborhood families. He bailed out errant youngsters and toughs, whispered pleas to magistrates, found jobs for the hopeless. He swept into local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: One Man's Army | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

In last week's Cavalleria, from the moment Tucker's fervent and sensuous voice sounded offstage in Turiddu's precurtain love song, the audience was his. Dressed in a tinhorn gambler's dark shirt and the cheap Sunday suit of a Sicilian villager, Tucker swaggered about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Two Home-Town Boys | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

For the U.S. at large, subscription TV is still a troublesome issue held at arm's length by the Federal Communications Commission. FCC has dawdled over pleas by such big companies as Zenith and International Telemeter for the use of public TV channels to broadcast scrambled signals that only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Giant Theater | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Victory in Texas. In pursuit of this goal, the independents have loudly opposed any increase in U.S. oil production, maintained that the stocks above ground are ample to supply Europe. Last week the independents won an all-out victory before the Texas Railroad Commission, which sets quotas for the Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Independents for Nasser | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

The Student Council Ride Bureau reports that its main trouble is securing drivers. Many people are reluctant to offer rides, possibly because they would rather make arrangements with friends or dislike taking chances with unfamiliar companions. The many signs on bulletin boards with such pleas as "Is anyone going to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Departing Students Fill Vacation Transportation | 12/21/1956 | See Source »

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