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Word: pleasing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Va., was a constant horror. Christened in 1928 as the "Gateway to the South," it swayed sickeningly to every vagrant breeze - so much so that Point Pleas ant Mayor D. B. Morgan banned its use during parades. Last week, under the bumper-to-bumper weight of cars, gravel trucks, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Collapse of the Silver Bridge | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

Nonetheless, Meany's elaboration of labor's status and goals was in effect a reply to Reuther's charges and exhortations. Among A.F.L.-C.I.O. goals, Meany outlined a call for a million public-service jobs paying at least the federal minimum wage, an Administration putsch against nonunion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Most of the Way with L.B.J. | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

Created a year ago amid a flurry of woeful statistics, the Committee of Responsibility (to save war-burned and war-injured Vietnamese children) seemed less a medical project than an exorcism of guilt. C.O.R.'s first pleas for help were highly seasoned with mentions of napalm and bombs and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casualties: C.O.R's Score | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

By now, pleas for restraint had cascaded into Athens and Ankara from all over the world. The most effective one arrived in the person of former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus Vance, 50, who came as the emissary of President Johnson. Jetting into Ankara, he met for 80 minutes with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyprus: Shadows of War | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

When is insanity not insanity? It depends partly on the case, but importantly, too, on the state that it is heard in and the state of mind of the jurors it is presented to. Last week insanity pleas in New York and Arizona had widely differing results:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Two States of Mind | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

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