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Word: pleasing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such laws, including those touching on the press, are still surrounded by uncertainties. The right of the press to publish and the public to know any significant fact is taken to be paramount, and in the case of public figures, almost anything can be significant, right down to the exact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: IN DEFENSE OF PRIVACY | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

Whitlock receives job requests and pleas for help in getting Cambridge youths into the College or graduate schools. In many of these instances, he acts just like many other people in and out of Cambridge politics: he provides information and directs his friends to the proper place in the Harvard...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: University and the City Are Discovering How to Live In Peace--Most of the Time | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

When the College re-opened in September 1913 the CRIMSON conducted a small debate over the value of business administration courses, which an alumnus had urged Harvard to offer. But in November this was replaced with pleas to President Lowell to lengthen the Christmas recess. And University officials announced that...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: Class of 1916 Watched As Lowell Rapidly Changed the University | 6/14/1966 | See Source »

"Very Glad." Lyndon Johnson did not get right on the phone to Gary's draft board. The letter, like the 350 other personal draft pleas that arrive each month at the White House, went to selective-service headquarters in Washington, then to California draft authorities. Hearing no word from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: Greeting | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

But the revelation also has its embarrassing side: Gytha's great-grandfather was none other than the cruel 11th century Earl Leofric of Coventry, who according to legend agreed to the pleas of his wife-Lady Godiva-that taxes be reduced, but only if she would ride naked through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Royal Revelations | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

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