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Word: pleasing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Retreat with Dignity. More personable, more genial and more subtle as he grew secure in office, Herman began to build a core of support that even old Gene had never achieved. Businessmen who financed Georgia's political campaigns liked Herman's lower corporation taxes and found his conservative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: The Red Galluses | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

At their trial the three Cypriots denied carrying arms or killing Hale. But the evidence was against them. They were identified, the fingerprints of one of them corresponded to those on the water glass, the fatal bullet had been fired from one of their guns. Two of the accused, Michael...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: An Eye for an Eye | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

The Family Tree. Despite this setback the debutante did well (three corsages to wear on Easter Sunday), and she married "strong, assured, sophisticated" Lieut, (j.g.) Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., with whom she lived the life of a Navy wife from Peking to Pensacola. Alas, came the terrible time when Lieut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bessiewallis | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

As far as Western diplomacy to date is concerned, Mr. Dulles deserves praise for preventing his own blunders from pushing the West over the brink of both the canal and war. When Britain and France were threatening military action, Dulles stepped in with a strong restraining hand and cogent pleas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Storm Over Suez: A New Proposal | 9/27/1956 | See Source »

Feel No Sorrow. Sent back to Belgium just before World War II, Gabrielle chafed even more against the restraints of the cloistered life. After her father was machine-gunned to death, she began helping the underground, finally made her successful pleas for release from her vows on the grounds that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Failure | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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