Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Investigations by Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's office led to convictions or guilty pleas for 27 aides and agents of former President Richard Nixon. Last week they were joined by a former top aide to a high-ranking Democrat. A federal court in Manhattan convicted Minneapolis Lawyer Jack...
Imprisoned for the next seven years, four of them in solitary confinement, Mindszenty was released by freedom fighters in the 1956 uprising, but the arrival of Soviet troops force him to flee to the American legation in Budapest. Citing what he regarded as his duty as prince primate and as...
The Saigon lawyer and politician resisted all pleas from family members and friends to flee. He was sure that he and others like him would survive. He explained: "I have been vanquished and will no doubt be subjected to the victor. I have no illusions. But I frankly believe that...
In many areas, civil servants and technicians had fled, leaving communities without electricity or water. Merchants had closed their shops. The first task of the arriving soldiers was to get communities operating again. Communist cadres set men to burning or burying dead bodies; women were put to work cleaning streets...
Flash-Boom. For Shigeto, the job of treating Hiroshima's survivors began moments after pikadon (Japanese for "flash-boom"). For a moment he paused, listening to the screams of pain that filled the air, and asked himself, "God, how on earth could a single doctor handle this mountain of...