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Word: pleasing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trip to Tashkent. Since then, Grigorenko has taken over one of Koste-rin's favorite causes, the return of the Tartars to the Crimea, their ancestral home on the Black Sea. Because some Tartars may have collaborated with the Nazis, Stalin in 1945 abolished their republic, uprooted more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Once Too Often | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

Now that the Faculty is beginning to crawl out from their bomb shelters, they ask us to reason with them once more as a "liberal" community. But somehow their pleas will ever sound the same again. Thomas S. Crane '72

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY BETRAYAL | 5/7/1969 | See Source »

Why Rhodes chose to commute Licavoli's sentence, thus making him eligible for parole for the first time, is a mystery. Governor after governor had turned down Licavoli's pleas for clemency. Rhodes himself had done so in 1963, telling the prisoner: "It is impossible to disassociate your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ohio: Rhodes Under Fire | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

Too Harsh. Having reached the first-degree murder verdict the previous week, the panel, under California law, had to decide on Sirhan's punishment. The defense and prosecution made brief pleas, after which the jury spent eleven hours and 45 minutes deciding Sirhan's fate. "I know he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Toward the Gas Chamber | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

The judge accepted the pleas because, he said, the defendants "all come from fine families and I'm sure they didn't send you to school to get into this kind of misconduct." He ordered each of them to pay $20 for court costs.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nude Movie Makers Are Barely Sentenced | 4/30/1969 | See Source »

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