Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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> In hearings before the Senate Commerce Committee, New York's Senator Robert F. Kennedy echoed earlier pleas that the Administration strengthen its pending safety legislation and push up the deadline by which manufacturers would have to meet safety standards from the 1970 to the 1968 models. A persistent critic...
Doherty's pleas for unity are far from a complete answer to his party's problems, and it is hard to believe that such an experienced politician could be so superficial in his analysis. For, in addition to its perennial power struggles, the weakness of the Democratic party under Doherty...
Every morning the crowd gathers out side the stone mansion at 3036 Calle French: matrons with flowers, shabby grandmothers with pleas for money, knots of angry, middle-aged men. "If Perón were in power, the poor people would not be suffering the way they do," complains one. "We...
He also wrote letters, mostly to his wife, his mother-in-law, his mistress and his valet. Unlike his fictive fantasies, these painful letters are not designed to give pleasure. Most of them are wheedling pleas to be let out of prison, or the usual prisoner's complaint about...
The City Council, faced with the conflicting pleas of businesses, residents, and M.I.T., has thus far failed to take any definite stand. It has until March 1--next Tuesday--to recommend an alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. alignment or accept the DPW's almost certain decision to select this...