Word: pleasing
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Eight major steel companies withdrew their original pleas of innocence and pleaded nolo contendere (no contest) to criminal charges that they had rigged some prices of the commonest grade of steel, carbon steel sheets, which go into autos, washing machines, kitchen cabinets, refrigerators, office furniture and many other consumer goods...
As the week ended, the White House responded to pleas from both Mayor Jesse Cutrer and Young, sent a Justice Department mediator to try his hand. McKeithen, who called the Negro refusal to mark time for 30 days "a tragic mistake," mobilized 100 agents of the Wild Life and Fisheries...
The Ugly Mug. There he fell for the Red recipe. "At first it was my patriotism and not Communism that drew me to Lenin and the Third International," he explained years later on his 70th birthday. "Step by step along the path of the struggle, I came to understand that...
Chapter 12 of Magna Carta, for example, heralded the principle of "taxation through representation," indirectly inspired the American Revolution by providing that the King should levy no taxes except by "general consent" of the kingdom. Chapters 17 through 19 laid to rest the practice of meting out justice only through...
Stealth & Strategy. In a similar case that reached the Supreme Court in 1958 (Sherman v. U.S.), a narcotics addict "on the cure" sold drugs to an informer only after repeated pleas for help. The court called that entrapment too: "The power of Government is abused and directed to an end...