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Word: pleasing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This time there was no simple sentence that meant "guilty" or "innocent," no terse phrase that decreed a statute "unconstitutional" or "constitutional." Yet the 1,000 words that Chief Justice Earl Warren read off to the crowded Supreme Court chamber one day last week released a powerful tide of law...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: The Powerful Tide | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

This time the White House kept hands off-despite intervention pleas by the L. & N management and the governors of Kentucky, Tennessee and Illinois. Some observers were sharply critical, pointing out that the walkout was the longest major rail strike since 1922 and was marked with violence. Snapped the New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Hands Off | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

In the middle of a Cleveland vice trial, the lawyer for three defendants accused of pandering asked the judge to put newsmen and spectators out of the courtroom to ensure privacy. Said Cleveland Common Pleas Judge Parker Fulton: "We don't want to get into, the fix they did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Open Sunlight | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

But last year, when the U.A.W. tried to improve its contract, the Kohler guard was high as ever. Company President Herbert Kohler, 63, who succeeded his late brother Walter, turned down mediation pleas even from his own nephew, Walter Jr., the governor of Wisconsin.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Unhappy Birthday | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

Valery's shocked parents accepted and crossed into West Berlin one day last week to confront their runaway son. Valery listened skeptically to his mother's pleas and to his father's warnings of the grim fate that would await him in U.S. "concentration camps." At the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Boogy-Voogist | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

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