Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The strike spread. Despite threats and promises, and the pleas of frantic Vorkuta officials, the revolt lasted ten days. In almost every camp the strikers maintained perfect discipline, and there was amazing unity among the prisoners, regardless of nationality. When prisoners chased officials from one camp, an officer gave the...
The Fund Drive Committee attributes this response to their new method of conducting the campaign. This year, personal pleas to give replaced writes pledges, and a concentrated two day appeal was substituted for the previous seven day drive.
The acceptance of a new attitude does not assure success, of course. The Administration faces many obstacles in its effort to reduce the Far eastern crisis to manageable proportions. The Chinese communists have responded to the President's patience with contempt-once again they may have confused American desires for...
Rain & Flood. The Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio Rivers went over their banks as the storm made an evening passage, northbound, through central Pennsylvania. In and near Wheeling, W. Va., a city of 58,000 built partly on an island in the Ohio, 2,400 families had to leave their homes...
Special Arrangement. In response to unremitting Philippine pleas for more U.S. assurances, Secretary Dulles reminded their leaders that they were the beneficiaries of special protection, such as the U.S. provides for Formosa. "The United States-Philippine defense treaty," said Dulles, "is an important link in the defense system of the...