Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson Administration backers--who have, in large part neatly transferred their allegiance to a logical heir apparent--do not seem to realize that in the last three years, events have caused new cracks in the Democratic Party which Humphrey's pleas for "tolerance, understanding, and mutual trust" cannot paper over...
Life v. Property. New York's Mayor John Lindsay summed up the sentiment of most leaders and lawmen throughout the nation: "Protection of life, particularly innocent life, is more important than protecting property. We are not going to turn disorder into chaos through the unprincipled use of armed force...
The Bridge. In the workers' ghettos, King was sometimes ignored-or worse. He had difficulty in effectively organizing Chicago slum dwellers in 1966; militants in Harlem showered him with rotten eggs in 1965. Many radicals derided his pleas for nonviolence-though few were unmoved by his death, as was...
Falling Walls. Van Erp, alas, reconstructed the temple on filled land. Even before he was finished, walls began to tilt. Fungi, salt and moss set in, and in the 1950s archaeologists found that water seeping down through the temple was threatening its very foundation. Pleas for funds went out, but...
Curdled Opinion. If there is a note of anguish in the pleas of U.S. officers for more men, that is due to the dangerously exposed situation of U.S. troops as a result of Hanoi's new thrust. "I see no easy end to this war," admitted Chairman of the...