Word: pleasing
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Then came the Amethyst's break. In answer to Kerans' pleas, the Communists delivered 56 tons of fuel oil to operate the refrigerators and ventilators. The 56 tons, Kerans figured, gave him just enough to reach the open sea. He decided to run for it. Luckily the Yangtse...
Shortly before the outbreak of the Korean war the Acrojets were disbanded, and Selenger volunteered for overseas duty. In Korea, Lefty ignored friends' pleas that he stay on the ground, in less than ten months racked up 223 missions.
Died. Dr. Takashi Nagai, 43, X-ray scientist, objective chronicler of A-bomb effects on himself and his townsmen; of chronic leukemia; in the one-room cabin he called "Love-Thy-Neighbor-as-Thyself-House" in Nagasaki, Japan. For years a hopeless invalid, given the last rites (he was a...
But, by last week, the hosannas were being drowned in a chorus of pleas for caution. The nation's pundits, from Walter Lippmann to Max Lerner and on down to Westbrook Pegler, urged the U.S. to go slow on televising public affairs. Judge Samuel Leibowitz feared that, without safeguards...
Hundreds of urgent telephone calls poured in on the sponsors. One call, from Brazil, was relayed by President Getulio Vargas through the Brazilian embassy in Washington.† However the long-term hopes for Krebiozen turn out, the short-term result of the Chicago announcement will be merely intensified grief. Thousands...