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Word: pleasing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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One of your roommates never returned from Thanksgiving break. Another one took off for Puerto Rico on Sunday, and the third left last night taking the stereo with him, despite your last minute pleas for mercy.

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: You Thought You Had It Bad | 12/17/1976 | See Source »

As I reject thy proffered pleas of love."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragment of 'Paradise Lost' Regained | 12/14/1976 | See Source »

Who was telling the truth? Bronfman's story had the virtue of being straightforward: the Seagram heir testified that a man he did not know grabbed him on a humid August night last year as he was parking his car at his mother's estate in Purchase, N.Y...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Time for Judgment: Lynch or Sam? | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

To conservative economists, the Viet Nam experience proves that guidelines are certain to fail. Banker Beryl Sprinkel, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, believes that guidelines distort the normal give-and-take functioning of the economy and may actually contribute to inflation by encouraging unions and companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: Another Go at Guidelines | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

All of these emotional boilings, however, eventually came up against these students' original desires and reasons for wanting to attend these "good schools." Thus the academic problems of these students, if they proved to be serious, were more often than not grounded in psychological confusion. For a time, it looked...

Author: By Walter J. Leonard, | Title: A tower of glass, not ivory | 11/9/1976 | See Source »

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