Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Paris, the French Foreign Office was preparing some news for Western Germany. Last winter the French had stonily ignored German pleas to stop the dismantling of German blast furnaces and steel mills. Last week, the French indicated that the Germans soon might be asked to make steel for the...
Among males with slightly bulging waistlines, the standard topic was whether "the old uniform" would still fit. In San Francisco, where the road show of South Pacific was being advertised, people asked when they could get "two tickets on the aisle to 'South Korea.' " Recruiting offices there, as...
The general's views, often and eloquently expressed, were well known in Washington. But for all MacArthur's reputation as a strategist, his pleas-considered political, and hence beyond his province-were largely ignored. In 1948 the Defense Department had answered with a flat "no" the general'...
As governor, Duff soon ran afoul of Grundy's Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association when he insisted that they clean up the sewage that their mines and factories spewed into the state's rivers. He turned a deaf ear to pleas for accustomed favors. Snapped Duff: "If these birds...
Bao Dai reigned but he did not rule. The French (Third Republic and Vichy) shrugged off his earnest pleas for social and economic reforms and more native political autonomy. Cleverly, as they thought, they encouraged the Emperor to devote himself to sport and pleasure.