Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Checking up on the effectiveness of official pleas to students to "stay South" after graduation, Mississippi Southern College's Student Printz took a poll, learned that 68% of the 3,400 undergraduates planned to move away from Mississippi after graduation. What can the state do to keep its...
Then came the final vote on the adoption of the closed rule. Democratic whips scurried into the aisles and cloakrooms for last-second pleas to wavering members. Les Arends, his grey hair ruffled, ran hurriedly around the chamber. John Mc Cormack snapped out orders. The rule was finally adopted, 193...
Actually, Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser's government was in something of a box. It hesitated to show more mercy to two Zionists than it had to six Moslem Brotherhood leaders hanged last December despite official pleas from Syria. Lebanon and Indonesia.
Unspoken Word. In Cleveland, Deaf-Mute Mrs. Edna Hopton won a divorce from her deaf-mute husband after she convinced Common Pleas Judge B. D. Nicola that "nagging in the sign language can be just as effective as spoken words."
During the past term discussion of the Lamont extra-hours problem has at times seemed as insistent as the buzzing of the library's fluorescent lights. And usually the attempts to solve the study problem have been as futile as pleas for quieting the lights. It is with particular delight...