Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Administration made some pleas for restraint. In a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, President Nixon warned businessmen and labor leaders that "if the fires of inflation continue to burn too strongly, demand for controls will come up again." John Dunlop, head of the Cost of Living Council...
That kind of complaint goes back at least as far as Woody Guthrie's eloquent pleas for the migratory workers during the Depression. Commercial country was born in the 1920s out of an amalgamation of American folk, British airs and hymns, and Negro gospel and blues. The New York...
HARVARD HAS been in Cambridge as long as Cambridge has existed, and the University has made plans to stay around for at least another millenium. So it is difficult to imagine Cambridge without its universities, despite occasional pleas by local residents for the professors to pack up their bags and...
Boyle's testimony cracked under Sprague's 88-minute crossexamination. Despite Boyle's frequent pleas of poor memory, the prosecutor repeatedly trapped him. He denied sending Turn-blazer a transcript of a U.M.W. meeting outlining a phony alibi for union officials linked with the murder. Sprague asked...
Despite numerous pleas from students and Faculty members for leniency for the demonstrators, the Ad Board in January 1969 recommended that five of the students who sat in at Paine Hall be required to withdraw. But the Faculty overruled the recommendation, refusing in a 192-99 vote to kick anyone...