Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For good measure, De Gaulle's emissaries were also busy last week stalling each new proposal in Brussels for increased political cooperation within the Common Market, despite earnest pleas from West Germany, Italy and the Benelux countries. These tactics left almost every nation in Western Europe on the outs...
James Bevel, an SCLC minister who wears overalls and an embroidered skull cap, pushed his way through the crowd shouting pleas for nonviolence. Forman, Willie Ricks, and Ben Ware, all of SNCC, stood on orange crates in the middle of the streets and yelled for silence. Meanwhile Negro teenagers on...
(2 of 11) men, women and children, including King, who dramatized the situation by refusing to make bond for four days. Still the Negroes came, singing "We shall overcome." In reply, Sheriff Clark pinned a button on his shirt reading "Never!" The city's mood grew ever uglier. Business...
No Substitute. Thus last week, as crisis flared again in Viet Nam, the support for strong U.S. action came, with rare exception, from conservative newspapers; the pleas for a negotiated settlement came from those on the liberal Side. NEGOTIATIONS PREFERABLE TO THIRD WORLD WAR, said the Miami News. "The strike...
Lyndon Johnson does not often get publicly angry at labor, but he was coldly furious last week. Object of his wrath: the striking longshoremen, who had rebuffed two presidential pleas to return to work, were in the fifth week of a senseless strike that halted the nation's waterborne...