Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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On Aug. 25, only four days after Soviet tanks moved into Czechoslovakia, a small group of Russian dissenters in Moscow's Red Square unfurled banners that said HANDS OFF CZECHOSLOVAKIA! and SHAME ON THE INVADERS! Beaten, cursed and arrested by KGB (secret police) agents, they were charged with making...
Alexander Barbieri, common pleas court judge in Philadelphia, ordered the investigation last July after a young defendant told him that he had been repeatedly raped by prisoners while on his way to court in the sheriff's windowless steel van. More than 3,000 inmates were interviewed at the...
Response to Tears. The switch from defiance to docility was a conscious and uncomfortable act of a people who by and large are not collaborators but simply captives. It came as a response to the tearful pleas of the man whose seven-month-old experiment to humanize Communism had prompted...
Dr. Pone raced to New Cassel. Outside the laundry room with the police lay Mitchell's common-law wife on a stretcher. He had shot both her and her brother after an argument. Mitchell ignored the wounded woman's pleas to come out and give up the child...
Pride and Persuasion. Yet sometimes this understatement became a form of intellectual pride. Persuasion was somehow beneath him. Talking to delegates uncertain about his position on Viet Nam, he would say: "I've written three books on my positions" or "I put out a position paper on that last...